ETHEL. Do I understand that it is your intention to threaten to go to law, unless Oceana gives us a part of grandfather's property?
MRS. MASTERSON. Ethel, I refuse...
DR. MASTERSON. You might as well tell the child, Sophronia. It's perfectly certain, Ethel, that your grandfather was not of sound mind when he made the will.
ETHEL. It's perfectly certain that he hated you and mother and Aunt Letitia and me and Freddy... every one of us; and that he had hated us for years and years; and that he left his money to Oceana to spite us all.
MRS. MASTERSON. That's precisely it, Ethel...
ETHEL. And I, for one, knowing that he hated me, don't want his money. And what is more, I refuse to touch his money.
DR. MASTERSON. Not being of age, my dear, you can't...
ETHEL. I am near enough of age to possess my self-respect. And I shall refuse to touch one penny.
DR. MASTERSON. My child, there are a good many pennies in a half million dollars.
MRS. MASTERSON. And when you are of age, Ethel, you'll appreciate..