At a loss how to reply, Lucy nodded.
“You don’t seem much concerned ’bout it,” observed her aunt peevishly. “Ain’t you curious to know who I’m goin’ to leave my property to?”
“No.”
“You ain’t!”
“No.”
“S’pose I was to give it all to you.”
“That would be very kind.”
“Yes, it would be—it would be kind,” agreed Ellen. “But mebbe I ain’t a-goin’ to. Mebbe I’m goin’ to will it to somebody else.”
“That’s your affair.”
“I’ll bet, for all your indifference, you’d be mad as a wet hen if I was to leave it to somebody else,” went on the woman provokingly.