(LULU is sitting on the floor trying to learn ‘The Daffodils’ by Wordsworth. JAKES watches as MINGUS and PRINCESS quarrel. MAMARITI sits quietly in a corner. FAHFEE sits at the kitchen table working on his gambling numbers.)

PRINCESS: Ek soek haar nie hier nie. Mingus, hoe kan jy so maak? Let this Jewish girl just move in? As jou my like, Mingus, you'll get rid of her.

MINGUS: Listen my angel, my princess, ek mnca jou, okay, but you're driving me mad. If you don't shaddup I'll have to crack you up.

PRINCESS: How can you let her stay here? We don't know who she is. You don't listen to me - you only listen to Jakes.

MINGUS: Look - you're just an American's tjerrie, and that means you shaddup and listen or I'll have to cut you up.

PRINCESS: I know about these Jewish girls from Yeoville. They're spoilt. Their fathers give them lots of money - they do what they like. They've all got nannies. Well, I'm not going to be anybody's nanny.

LULU: You're just jealous.

MINGUS: Look, I brought you here. I give you dresses, I take you to bioscope, you're my princess. What else do you want?

PRINCESS: I want that Jewish girl out.

MINGUS: Shaddup or I'll have to cut your spinal off! I didn't bring you from your shack so you can complain.

LULU: I like her. I stared at her face all night. It glowed in the dark. It made me think of the line in this poem, ‘a host of golden daffodils'. I need help with this homework.

PRINCESS: I'll help you.

LULU: What do you know - you're just an American's tjerrie.

PRINCESS: I'll give you a good klap. How can you let her stay here? She doesn't belong here, man. She's a European. Europeans don't live in Sophiatown. It's a native location.

JAKES: It's a freehold suburb - no fences, no superintendent.

MINGUS: Ja, and this house is open. If I say she stays, she stays.

JAKES: Look, she's got guts. I need her. She's a hot story. How many others are there like her?

LULU: There's that white woman living with the police sergeant in Orlando.

JAKES: Regina Brooks.

MINGUS: Ja, she's alright.