Celia Foote: There you are! I'm starved. Looks so good!
[sits down with Minny to have lunch]
Minny Jackson: We done been over this, Miss Celia. You're supposed to eat in the dining room, that's how it works. Here, let me take your plate back.
Celia Foote: [assertively, yet with respect, holding her plate] I'm fine right here, Minny.