3

DOROTHY‘s eyes are alive with excitement as she window shops. ETTA and VIVIAN follow behind her, deep in conversation.

                         ETTA
                (incredulously)
       …Say what?  Girl, come on, I know she did
       no such thing.

VIVIAN pulls an arch look at her.

                        VIVIAN
       If I'm lying I'm flying.  My feet have 
       not left the ground.
 
                         ETTA
                (persuaded)
       No she didn't.  I thought that sort of 
       thing went out with chastity belts.
 
                        VIVIAN
                (laughs)
       If Auntie Mama had peeped the way Dorothy
       Jean was batting her eyes at Harold Nicholas 
       yesterday, she would've locked her up in 
       a chastity belt and thrown away the key.

She and ETTA laugh.  DOROTHY, peering into a shop window, speaks without turning to them.

                       DOROTHY
       I heard that, Vivee.  I wasn't batting
       my eyes at Harold Nicholas.