Must be hers! Maybe she wouldn’t like it.

NETTIE

Maybe she wouldn’t know it.

ELLA

A cat can look at a king!

[She opens the box and holds up the blue dress.

NETTIE

Oh! Oh!

ELLA (really moved)

Some folks would say a dress like that wasn’t decent, but I wouldn’t care, not if it was mine, and it might have been mine—but for her.