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Freida Lovejoy Burton: [all three coming down the stairs] I thought it would be good for Danny, but he hates it.Carolyne Lovejoy: He hasn't even given it a chance.Freida Lovejoy Burton: Now Caroline, I Know my son. He's been on his best behavior. He thinks you don't like him. It's awful to grow up in a house where you're disliked.Sissy Lovejoy: Don't I know it.Carolyne Lovejoy: What do you mean by that?Sissy Lovejoy: You never liked me.Carolyne Lovejoy: I raised you, Sissy. Do you remember what Papa always used to say?Sissy Lovejoy: What?Carolyne Lovejoy: There's nothing more important in a family of nations than the love and care of your own relations.Sissy Lovejoy: Oh, those stupid poems again. He even published a book of them. You knew I wanted to go to Howard University and I needed that money.Carolyne Lovejoy: Papa left that $2000 for me to publish that book.Sissy Lovejoy: Of course, you always did what Papa want. You never did anything for me!Carolyne Lovejoy: When you were a sick child, I cleaned your vomit. I bathed and powdered you. I gave you your first pair of high heel shoes. Was that for Papa? I gave you your first dating dress. I gave you your first ice skates! Was that for Papa, Sissy? [runs into the kitchen]Sissy Lovejoy: [following her] Yes, Caroline, it was, like everything. And what was he, Caroline? A Pullman Porter who made some investments, saved a little money. A porter caring for white folks. Cleaning their clothes and shining their shoes and damn pleaded for the lousy tips he got being their servant.Carolyne Lovejoy: But he did it all for us so that we can have a better way of life.Sissy Lovejoy: Not for me. He never...Freida Lovejoy Burton: Wait, wait. We don't have to argue this, we're all grown. Now Cissy and I both have decided to leave this place. We need money and we want to sell this house.Carolyne Lovejoy: My house?Freida Lovejoy Burton: It's not your house.Sissy Lovejoy: It belongs to all of us, Caroline.Carolyne Lovejoy: This was your idea, Freida. You had it from the first day you walked through that front door.Freida Lovejoy Burton: I don't deny it, but why do you need all this space for yourself?Sissy Lovejoy: Caroline, you can move into your own apartment. You can buy yourself a decent car.Sissy Lovejoy: This house will sell easy.Carolyne Lovejoy: Isn't it a pity that for 13 years you didn't think about this house, when I was here putting my time, my love, my money into this house! [she pickes up a serving dish and sets it on the dining room table]

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