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What?

Look Ben:

[He looks at her and for a moment sits in stupid wonder, then rises slowly to his feet.

It ’s—It ’s Nettie!

Did you ever see anything so lovely, did you?

You ’re—you ’re a woman, Nettie!

Of course I am, you stupid!

(crosses down to her)

God! How I’ve starved for somethin’ pretty to look at! God! How I ’ve starved for it!

That ’s why I came down, I wanted you to see! I waited there in the hall till she went out.

And you ’ve been here all the time, and I haven’t so much as looked at you!

(softly)

You ’ve been in trouble, 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.

Honest, Ben?