God! How I’ve starved for somethin’ pretty to look at! God! How I’ve starved for it!
NETTIE
That’s why I came down, I wanted you to see! I waited there in the hall till she went out.
BEN
And you’ve been here all the time, and I haven’t so much as looked at you!
NETTIE (softly)
You’ve been in trouble, Ben!
BEN
I’ll get out of that somehow! I’m going to make a fight. I ain’t goin’ to let ’em take me now.
NETTIE