SUSAN GLASPELL
And yet (with a little bow to her) I know there are some Dickson county farmhouses which do not have such roller towels. (Gives it a pull to expose its full length again.)
MRS. HALE: Those towels get dirty awful quick. Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: Ah, loyal to your sex, I see. But you and Mrs. Wright were neighbors. I suppose you were friends, too.
MRS. HALE: (Shaking her head.) I've not seen much of her of late years. I've not been in this house—it's more than a year.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: And why was that? You didn't like her?
MRS. HALE: I liked her all well enough. Farmer's wives have their hands full, Mr. Henderson. And then——
COUNTY ATTORNEY: Yes—?
MRS. HALE: (Looking about.) It never seemed a very cheerful place.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: No it's not cheerful I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct.
MRS. HALE: Well, I don't know as Wright had, either.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: You mean that they didn't get on very well?
MRS. HALE: No, I don't mean anything. But I don't
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