The film""s screenplay (by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner) was based on Jane Murfin""s adaptation of Booth Tarkington""s 1921 prize-winning novel of the same name about a girl in a mid-sized Indiana city.That is enough").In their final discussion together, Reggie and Cruikshank alk about marriage, interspersed with his demands for the hidden fortune (stamps), and her continuing torment and confusion about his real name and identity - although she is ready to have children with him:Reggie:....We got a lot of cotton stored up.Call it stolen cotton if you want to, but we""ve got it.But it won""t do us good unless we get a man on the selling end of the business....Now, we want you go to Memphis like a regular cotton grower.Set up an office and...There""s a good, fat commission in it for you, too.Joe argued it was now the time for the educated Marvin (who was given "learning" by Norwood) to pay back his kinfolk by using his intelligence to side with the tenant-farmers against his exploitative employer Norwood:Now, you""re under obligations to him.He sneaks his latest woman-of-the-evening or mistress up the staircase and into his apartment.With a dramatic camera angle from high above hem, Lisa looks down from the landing as she spies on the couple and hides from their view.