Mrs. Hale says
I wish you’d seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang. Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?
I might have known she needed help! I know how things can be -for women.
I tell you, it’s queer, Mrs Peters. We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things -it’s all just a different kind of the same thing, If I was you, I wouldn’t tell her her fruit was gone.
Tell her it ain’t. Tell her it’s all right. Take this in to prove it to her.
She -she may never know whether it was broke or not.