Read the excerpt from part one of trifles. county attorney. how did she seem to feel about you coming? hale. why, i don’t think she minded—one way or the other. she didn’t pay much attention. i said, “how do, mrs. wright, it’s cold, ain’t it? ” and she said, “is it? ”—and went on kind of pleating at her apron. . and then she—laughed. i guess you would call it a laugh. how does this dialogue further develop the idea that mrs. wright may have had a motive for killing her husband?