JANE
When you told me, that day, that Mrs. Jordan had left me all her money, I couldn’t understand; then, afterwards, you gave me the letter she left for me. I want you to read it.
JUDGE
What has her letter to do with us?
JANE
Maybe, reading it, you’ll get to know something you’ve got a right to know, better than I could tell it to you.
JUDGE
Very well.
JANE
It’s here. (She opens drawer, and selects a letter in a woman’s old-fashioned handwriting, from a large envelope of papers) She was a cold woman, Judge. She never let me get close to her, although I tried. She didn’t love me. I was as sure of it then as I am now. (She holds out the letter) Read it.