Throughout the play the only person who seems happy to see Chance is

How about Miss Lucy? She is Boss Finley's longtime mistress, who lives in a room at the Royal Palms Hotel. She lives lavishly, charging all of her expenses to Boss, but never enjoying the privileges of his public life. She is kind to Chance, whom she remembers from boyhood, and tries to steer him away from staying in St. Cloud, fearing the dangers that will befall him.