SADIE (angrily)
Yes, and you grudged it to him, I knew it then and it isn’t likely I’m going to forget it.
ELLA
Will was a good man, but even you can’t say he was ever very dependable.
EMMA
My first husband died sudden—(she turns to Nettie)—you can’t remember it, dear.
ELLA
You didn’t remember it very long, it wa’n’t much more’n a year before you married Henry.
HENRY (sighs)
Well, he was as dead then as he’s ever got to be. (He turns and glances nervously out window) I don’t know but what I could just run down to the store for a minute, then hurry right back.