LUKE
How’d you find me?

ARLETTA
Helen, she sent along your things with a note, and John here, he wrote to the police.

LUKE
Yeah. Well.
(to Godfrey)
Getting’ up here, Boss.

Godfrey just looks at him, says nothing.

LUKE
Well, Arletta, I got to stand down here.

ARLETTA
I allus hoped to see you well fixed and have me a crop of grandkids to kiss and fuss around with.

LUKE
Like to oblige you, Arletta, but right off I don’t know where to put my hands on ‘em.

ARLETTA
Sometimes I wisht people was like dogs, Luke. Comes a time, a day like, when the bitch just don’t recognize her pups no more, so she don’t have no hopes nor love to bring her pain. She just don’t give a damn. They let you smoke?

LUKE
Smokin’ it up here, Boss.