ACT THREE
SCENE 1

SCENE:
FOLLOWING SATURDAY NIGHT

INTERIOR OF DICEY'S SHACK

At the rise, the shack is empty. It is of the same crude construction as Big Sweet's house, but little has been done here to relieve the raw unpainted lumber and careless structure. The bed is lumpy and covered by a worn, faded quilt. There is a small iron heater in the corner, down-stage, right. It needs polish. The bed is across the center of the wall upstage. Two or three shoddy dresses hang against the door, which is left. A cheap suitcase is under the edge of the bed. The thin curtains are only half, and hung on strings that sag. Two unpainted kitchen chairs, and a goods box covered with newspaper complete the furnishings of the room, except for a chipped slop-jar in the corner behind the door.

There is no one in the room at the rise. One hears a key thrust hurriedly and nervously in the door, then Dicey opens the door and fairly leaps inside, looking back over her shoulder as she enters.

Dicey
(Shutting the door quickly and
locking it)
I dOnt reckon nobody seen me come in.
(She turns on the light above her
head and looks all around the room
furtively)
Better git all ready before Nunkie git here for me. 
(Pulls suit-case from under bed and puts it on the bed and opens it)
DOnt want to forgit a thing! When I leave here this time,
this place wont never see me no more.