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(after a pause)

It was true, Jane. I ’ll help him.

[He picks up his hat.

I ’ve an errand at the store. I ’ll go with you.

[She takes hat and coat from rack and puts them on.

Is it anything I could have sent up for you?

(putting on coat)

I guess not. You see, I ’ve got to match a color.

Another new dress?

(they start toward door)

Just a ribbon, for my hair.

I did n’t know women still wore ribbons in their hair.

It seems they do—in France.

[They exit together at left to the outside door and off.

Nettie and Ella enter quickly, after a slight pause, Nettie running in from right, followed more sedately by Ella.

You see! I was right! She went with him.

[She has run to window left and is looking out.

That ’s what money does. If mother had n’t left her everything, he would n’t have touched her with a ten-foot pole.

Well, if she ’s fool enough to stay in this place, I guess he ’s about the best there is.