She stutters her unconvincing excuse for being with Bud: "We were studying together."Upstairs, as Deanie undresses for bed and hides herself for privacy in the bathroom to brush her teeth, her mother follows her and tries to instill her own sexual fears into her.Nothin' at all.Just a little ol' spastic colon and that's all." Maggie ells her admiring father-in-law: "That's the best birthday present of all."After getting a ride back home with Maggie, the crochety old Big Daddy, an immense rotund man, has a new lease on life with a clean bill of health: "Well, I'm gonna live, Maggie, I'm gonna live.Inside, they met Bick's traditionalist, no-nonsense, rough, raw and resilient older sister Luz, who was immediately stern and unwelcoming because her beloved brother had betrayed her and brought home a blueblooded outsider from the East.After denying him a chance to speak, Cora, the quintessentialfemme fatale, sneaks into Frank's room later in the evening to talk about their future on her own terms.