The Baby

Ann Gentry: What about the family income?

Mrs. Wadsworth: Just what the county gives us for Baby.

Ann Gentry: Your daughters, are they employed?

Mrs. Wadsworth: Are my daughters... no, they help out the best they can, but it doesn't come to too much. Alba gives tennis lessons in the afternoon and Jermaine...

Germaine Wadsworth: Once in a while I do a TV commercial.

Mrs. Wadsworth: Sometimes I don't know how we make ends meet, but we always seem to manage.

Ann Gentry: Isn't there any money from your husband's pension? Or his social security?

Mrs. Wadsworth: Why no, how could there be?

Germaine Wadsworth: [laughs] She thinks he's dead.

Mrs. Wadsworth: [laughs] That man didn't die.

Germaine Wadsworth: No such luck.

Mrs. Wadsworth: It happened just before Baby was born. When I needed him most, he ran off and left us. But then all that's in the record.

Ann Gentry: Oh I'm sure it is.

Mrs. Wadsworth: My husband was a very weak man, Mrs. Gentry.

Germaine Wadsworth: No character.

Mrs. Wadsworth: None at all.

Ann Gentry: And you've had no contact with him since he left?

Mrs. Wadsworth: As far as I'm concerned, he might as WELL be dead.