EMMA

I guess you’d better be careful how you talk!

NETTIE

If anybody says anything about Jane lately, that’s the way he always talks! The worse she treats him the better he seems to like it.

SADIE

Well, I don’t know as I’m surprised more about his insultin’ the rest of us, but it’s sort of comical his talkin’ that way about you, Nettie.

EMMA

Nettie! What’s Nettie got to do with him?

SADIE

Oh! Excuse me! I didn’t know ’twas supposed to be a secret.