The girl could speak no English and her character was not self-assertive or strong. She knew nothing about French consuls or the English police, and, then, too, her ordinary wearing apparel had been taken from her by _B_. She, therefore, found herself on this first occasion, in the brightly-lighted promenade of a “music hall,” with many well-dressed men and women in her immediate vicinity. _B_ was near at hand to keep a watchful eye upon her. A patron of the place, one who was fluent with his French, soon made off with her to the flat in Oxford Street, to which he had been directed by _B_. (_A_ was herself incapable of supplying the address to the cabman). The girl then explained that she had had her ordinary clothes taken from her by _B_, that _B_ kept a man in the background, and that she, _A_, was entirely helpless. At a subsequent meeting, _A_ explained that _B_ took possession of about forty pounds a week, from her, and that the pretext was that it was being banked! The only clothes to which she, _A_, had access were evening gowns; she was kept without money, too, under constant surveillance, amid conditions which she did not like. The final scene was enacted a few months later, when the person, to whom _A_ had confided her story, went to the flat and found her missing. Her place had been filled by a newly-arrived _girl of fifteen_, procured by the same process from a Paris shop. On persistent enquiry, _A_ was found in another room suffering from the consequences of an illegal operation, which had been forced upon her by the joint efforts of _B_ and the male director of affairs. A maximum penalty of twelve months’ hard labour for a scoundrel of the stamp of _B’s_ “lover” is most disproportionate to the offence. Of course, such a man would be liable to a greater penalty, if a girl of fifteen years of age were brought into the case. But on the other facts alone, the law should be less merciful. Section 10, of the Morality Bill, is worth transcribing in full. “(1) If any male person shall have connection with a woman who is to his knowledge his granddaughter, sister, daughter, niece, or mother, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years, or be kept in penal servitude for any term not less than three years and not exceeding seven years: Provided that if it is alleged in the indictment and proved that the girl was, at the time of the commission of the offence, under the age of sixteen years, the maximum term of penal servitude which the court may inflict shall be ten years. “(2) If any male person shall attempt to have connection with a woman who is to his knowledge his granddaughter, sister, niece, or mother, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.