Act 2; Scene 4

• OH NO! Mrs. Bassett is back. I hate Mrs. Bassett. Maybe she'll be nice for once.
• The scene opens at the fountain in the park. Alma enters.
• Mrs. Bassett tells Alma it is good to see her out again after her illness. She tells Alma that their little group broke up after she dropped. Vernon finally read his verse play. Mrs. Basset says that it was "Maliciously, spitefully and vindictively torn to pieces, the way children tear the wings off butterflies." What a line! The group may reorganize.
• Nellie enters and Mrs. Bassett leaves. Nellie updates Alma on her life and mentions John. When Nellie asks Alma about the rumors she has heard about her, Alma replies by saying, "Naturally, I had to stop teaching while I was ill, and as for retiring from the world...it's more a case of the world retiring from me." What a heartbreaking line.
  
• Nellie tells Alma that she knows someone whose feelings Alma has hurt badly. This person regards Alma as an angel, but Alma refuses to see him. Though it is never said, I can only assume Nellie is talking about John.
• Nellie gives Alma a beautiful handkerchief for Christmas. The card says it is from Nellie AND John. John helped Nellie wrap the presents and spoke very highly of Alma and her influence on him.
  
• It is finally blatantly mentioned-John's father did die.
  
• John credits Alma to helping him pull himself together.
  
• While Nellie is telling Alma this, she walks away to drink from the fountain. She tells Nellie that despite what John says, the only angel in Glorious Hill is the one on the fountain.
  
• Alma starts to leave, and Nellie tells her she hasn't told her the best news yet. Alma leaves without hearing the news.
  
• ALMA! The news was probably about John. Why didn't she listen?!?! Things might have panned out so differently!
• I'm sure Alma is having a hard time dealing with the guilt and grief from the doctor's death. I know it would be hard for her to face John, but there has to be a part of her that wants to! I'm sure they'll talk again in the next scene. I sure hope so!