SADIE (angrily)
His father was a good man, and if he talked about God different from what you do, it was because he knew more about him. And as for my being here at all—(she rises with her arms about Orin)—I wouldn’t do it, not for anything less than my own mother’s deathbed.
This family don’t ever agree on nothin’ but just to differ.
EMMA
As far as I see, the only time you ever get together is when one of you is dead.
ELLA
Maybe that’s the reason I got such a feelin’ against funerals.
[The outside door opens and Jane enters, a druggist’s bottle in her hand; she is followed by John Bradford, a man of about thirty-five. He is better dressed than any of the others and is a man of a more cosmopolitan type,—a New Englander, but a university man, the local judge and the leading lawyer of the town.
JANE