NETTIE

Yours! Grandma wouldn’t have left her money to you. She hated old people. Everybody does. She’d have left it to me, but for Jane Crosby!

ELLA (looks at dress)

I always wanted a dress like this; when I was young, I used to dream about one, but mother only laughed. For years I counted on gettin’ me what I wanted, when she died; now I never will.

NETTIE (fiercely)

I will—somehow!

ELLA

Maybe but not me. Oh, if I could have the feelin’ of a dress like that on me, if I could wear it once, where folks could see me—Just once! Oh, I know how they’d laugh—I wouldn’t care——

NETTIE (almost in tears)

I can’t stand it if she’s going to wear things like that.