In the midst of her deadly illness, she comfortsherbest friend Ann King (Fitzgerald), and courageously meets her fate when her eyesight dims.After Harry departed, Kent suspected that he was he organization""s ""mole"": "I bet that""s our leak." Nan discouraged Kent from retaliating against the "dirty, lowdown---", and forced him to realize that he would probably fail at his new job anyway: "He""ll wind up jerking sodas when he has to think of his own ideas.When he also implied that she was "cheap" and "vulgar" - she slapped him, and announced her decision to run off with Griffiths o Paris.I""m scandalized at you.Well, did you come up here just to stand there?Preston: Julie, how long must we go on like this?Julie: Like what, Pres?Preston: Fightin"", fussin"" all the time, like a couple of children.I want to be a toe dancer." Sophia""s mother scolded her: "Be quiet, Sophia.You""re going to marry a king if I have anything to do with it."It was revealed that the doctor (a "horse doctor"), after basically pronouncing that the young girl was healthy (although she may have had scarlet fever and/or a spinal ailment and would be required o wear a "harness" for a year), was also the locality""s "public hangman" or executioner (who performed "operations with an axe").