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(angrily)

What do you mean by that?

You tell him, Henry.

I don’t know as it ’s any use to

(sternly)

Tell him what I mean.

(to Ben)

Emma thinks, considerin’ everything, that it ’s best Nettie should n’t talk to you.

Why don’t you keep her at home then? You don’t suppose I want to talk to her.

Oh, we ain’t wanted here, I guess. We know that, not by you, or by her;—and Henry ’s the oldest of the Jordans. All this would be his, if there was any justice in the world.

Father would n’t have taken that hundred dollars grandma left me if there had been any justice in the world. That ’s what I came here for, not to talk to him. To tell Cousin Jane what father did, and to tell her about Nellie Namlin’s Christmas party, and that I ’ve got to have a new dress. I ’ve just got to!

A new dress, and my rent ain’t paid. She ’s got to pay it. My Orin ’s got to have a roof over his head.