(_He gives it a pull to expose its 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. Farmers' 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 think a place'd be any
cheerfuller for John Wright's being in it.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: I'd like to talk more of that a little later. I want to
get the lay of things upstairs now. (_He goes to the left, where three
steps lead to a stair door_.)
SHERIFF: I suppose anything Mrs Peters does'll be all right.
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