Some is! Maybe I’d done all of ’em if I’d been a centipede. JANE Oh! I didn’t see you, Sadie. SADIE Oh! Ha, ha! Well, I ain’t surprised. JANE (_with Ella, selecting finished towels_) Well, Orin, does the tooth still hurt you? ORIN Naw, it don’t hurt me none now. I got it in a bottle. [_He takes small bottle from pocket._ NETTIE Oh you nasty thing. You get away! SADIE (_angrily_) What did I tell you about showin’ that tooth to folks! JANE Never mind, Orin, just run out to the barn and tell your Uncle Ben we’ve got to have a path cleared under the clothes-lines. ORIN All right. [_He crosses toward door._ JANE Hannah’s going to wash to-morrow, tell him. I’ll expect a good wide path. ORIN I’ll tell him. [_He exits._ SADIE I must say you keep Ben right at it, don’t you? JANE Yes. (_She takes the last finished towel and speaks to Ella_) I’ll come back for more. SADIE (_as Jane crosses_) First I thought he’d go to jail before he’d work, but he didn’t, did he? JANE No. [_She exits right._ SADIE Yes. No! Yes. No! Folks that ain’t got no more gift of gab ain’t got much gift of intellect. I s’pose Hannah’s out there. ELLA Yes, she keeps all of us just everlastingly at it. SADIE When Jane comes back, I wish you and Nettie would leave me alone with her, just for a minute. ELLA (_as she works over sewing machine_) It won’t do you much good; she won’t lend any more money. SADIE Mother always helped me. I’ve got a right to expect it. ELLA (_as she bites off a thread_) Expectin’ ain’t gettin’. SADIE I don’t know what I’ll do. ELLA You had money out of her; so has Henry. SADIE (_shocked, to Nettie_) You don’t mean to say your father’s been borrowin’ from her. [_This to Nettie._ NETTIE He’s always borrowin’. Didn’t he borrow the hundred dollars grandma left me? I’m not going to stand it much longer. ELLA Henry’s havin’ trouble with his business. SADIE We’re fools to put up with it. Everybody says so. We ought to contest the will. ELLA Everybody says so but the lawyers; they won’t none of ’em touch the case without they get money in advance. SADIE How much money? Didn’t your father find out, Nettie? NETTIE The least was five hundred dollars. ELLA Can you see us raisin’ that? SADIE If we was short, we might borrow it from Jane. ELLA We’d have to be smarter’n I see any signs of; she’s through lendin’. SADIE How do you know? ELLA I tried it myself. SADIE What do you want money for. Ain’t she takin’ you in to live with her? ELLA I don’t call myself beholden for that. She had to have some one, with Ben here, and her unmarried, and next to no relation to him. NETTIE Everybody’s callin’ you the chaperon! (_She laughs_) Not but what they ought to be one with _him_ around; he’s awful good lookin’. SADIE