Zona Gale

“ LULU. But if we don't tell what'll they think?
DWIGHT. They'll think what they always think when a wife leaves her husband. They'll think you couldn't get along. That's all.
LULU. I should hate that. I wouldn't want them to think I hadn't been a good wife to Ninian.
DWIGHT. Wife? You never were his wife. That's just the point.
LULU. Oh!
DWIGHT. Don't you realize the position he's in?...See here–do you intend–Are you going to sue Ninian?
LULU. Oh! no! no! no!
INA. Why, Lulu, any one would think you loved him.
LULU. I do love him. And he loved me. Don't you think I know? He loved me.
INA. Lulu. ”

“ INA. No, Dwight. And it's been a week since Lulu wrote. She said he'd bought her a new red dress–and a hat. Isn't it too funny–to think of Lulu–
DWIGHT. I don't understand why they plan to go straight to Oregon without coming here first.
INA. It isn't a bit fair to mama, going off that way. Leaving her own mother–why, she may never see mama again.
MRS. BETT. Oh I'm going to last on quite a while yet.
DWIGHT. Of course you are, Mama Bett. You're my best girl. That reminds me, Ina, we must run up to visit Aunt Mollie. We ought to run up there next week. She isn't well. ”

“ At the back are two windows, attractively curtained and revealing shaded lamps; between the windows a door, of good lines, set in white clapboards The porch is raised but a step or two. Low greenery, and a path leading off sharply left. ”