Zona Gale

“ CORNISH: And I'm not much good in a business way. Sometimes I think that I may never be able to make any money.
LULU: Lots of men don't.
CORNISH: Well, there it is. I'm no good at business. I'll never be a lawyer. And–and everything I say sounds wrong to me. And yet I do believe that I'd know enough not to bully a woman. Not to make her unhappy. Maybe–even, I could make her a little happy.
LULU: Lots of men do.
(Voices. Enter INA, DWIGHT and MRS. BETT.)
INA: Oh, Dwight! she's still here.
DWIGHT: So this is where we find our Lulu!
LULU: Did you want me, Dwight?
INA: Want you? Why, Lulu! ”

“ Cornish...
CORNISH: Hello, there Monona! How's everything?
MONONA: Everything's perfectly awful up to our house.
CORNISH: Miss Lulu's all right, I hope?
MONONA: Aunt Lulu is–
CORNISH: There! I knew it. I knew this thing was going to wind up in a fit of sickness–
MONONA: Sick... No. She s gone.
CORNISH: Gone! Miss Lulu gone?
MONONA: Run away.
CORNISH: Oh, with who?
MONONA: Nobody, I guess. She skipped out of the house early this morning. It was me saw her going down the walk with her bag. It was me told everybody. It was me found her trunk packed and locked in her room. That's all. ”

“ Everything b-boils over and what I don't expect to b-boil b-burns.... (Sobs) Dwightie, you've got to make her stay.
DWIGHT: Pettie–control yourself.... Lulu, I ask you, I implore you, to come back home with us.
CORNISH: Miss Lulu...
LULU: Yes?
CORNISH: May I tell them?
LULU: What is there to tell them?
CORNISH: I think Miss Lulu and I are going to–arrange.
LULU: O but not yet–not yet.
DWIGHT: What–you? You and Cornish? I should think not. How can you?
LULU: Cora Waters is alive. Ninian's heard from her. There's her lawyer's letter. ”