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(after reading note)

Poor Sadie! Wait, Orin! (She sits at table and takes checkbook from the drawer and writes) Just take this to your mother.

You don’t mean you ’re goin’ to

Be quiet, Ella. Here, Orin. (She hands him check) Don’t lose it, and run along.

ORIN All right. Mum said we was goin’ to have dinner early, and go to a movie! Good night.

(again writing in checkbook)

Good night.

[Orin exits.

So you sent her her rent money, after all?

Here!

[She rises and hands a check to Ella.

What ’s that?

Two hundred dollars. You can try that dressmaking business if you want to, Ella.

[Looks at check.

Two hundred dollars!

You need n’t thank me.

That ain’t it. I was just wonderin’ what ’s come over you all of a sudden.

[Ben enters.