"I don't care a damn what you've been!" Dick exclaimed. "From now
on you'll go straight. You'll walk the straightest line a woman
ever walked. You'll put all thoughts of vengeance out of your
heart, because I'll fill it with something bigger--I'm going to
make you love me."
Burke, with his rousing voice, spoke again:
"I tell you, she's a crook!"
Mary moved a little, and then turned her face toward Gilder.
"And, if I am, who made me one? You can't send a girl to prison,
and have her come out anything else."
Burke swung himself around in a movement of complete disgust.
"She didn't get her time for good behavior."
Mary raised her head, haughtily, with a gesture of high disdain.
"And I'm proud of it!" came her instant retort. "Do you know
what goes on there behind those stone walls? Do you, Mr.
District Attorney, whose business it is to send girls there? Do
you know what a girl is expected to do, to get time off for good
behavior? If you don't, ask the keepers."
Gilder moved fussily.
"And you----"
Mary swayed a little, standing there before her questioner.
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