"Well, I don't quite mean it like that--I mean--" "Listen, honey, I know just how you feel--I only hope you can do what you want to. When I came down here, I had the same idea, but I let this damn place get me. Now I couldn't leave it, no matter how hard I tried. I guess the only way I'll ever leave it is in a box." "I don't quite know what to do. I'm kind of puzzled since tonight--the party, the shooting, and all. Maybe I've had a little too much to drink--or not enough--I--I--well, I ought never, never think, nobody should ever think, especially about the past--Oh, well, let's have another drink." "Well, if you could be bothered with Big Boy, you could feather your nest for good--honey, that means an awful lot these days--not having to worry about the rent, not having to put up with men that you hate the sight of, especially when you have to be nice, to make the lousy two dollars that they hand out grudgingly, and think that they are doing you a good turn--but, of course, if you can't go him--well, what's the use to try?" "I've been thinking about that myself--and I'm afraid it wouldn't work out. First, I don't care a thing about him, and he would be so jealous of me my life wouldn't be safe, if he caught me talking to anyone else, and knowing what I've been, if he ever got mad at me he would be sure to throw it up to me--and I'm afraid I couldn't stand that." "Well, if I'm not mistaken, you do care for somebody else, don't you? And if my guess is right--it's Harry, ain't it?" "Yeah--you're right, all right, it's Harry. He don't even know my name, and I don't know a thing about him, but Jees, how I love that kid--Ah, nuts, one would be as bad as the other; I would be so jealous of Harry every time he was out of my sight for five minutes, I'd think he was with some other woman, and what's more, I'd be right--second, he is not the marrying kind, that is, he don't marry my kind--that's damn certain. Ah--to Hell with both of them, I'll take 'em all on that's got the price. What the Hell am I mooning about? Let's have another drink."