Meanwhile, Darla, who just KNEW that Ethel was going to be late, was purchasing some new stockings. A girl never could have too many back up pairs of stockings now could she? She was tapping her purple Mary Jane's while she waited for that snotty cashier to finish gossiping with old Mrs. Heggamuffin about the mailman's daughter, Carla, who had run off with that boy from Tupelo last week. Darla sniffed as she thought to herself, "I can't abide by gossips." As she waited and shifted a bit closer to hear, Darla noticed a newspaper headline that was shocking. "James Brown was getting a divorce?", she thought. Just wait til Ethel hears this!