STROEBEL. I certainly do.

HAUTEVILLE. I was afraid I had lost all refinement after spending
the last two nights in such company.

STROEBEL [benevolently]. No doubt, it was a trifle hard.

HAUTEVILLE. It was terrible. They really do make me pay for
discreetness.

STROEBEL. Your patrons are the very men who make it so hard for
you. They get you into trouble and then expect you to protect
them. Isn't it so?

HAUTEVILLE. What an experience for me! To have my apartment raided
at night and be simply dragged away myself.

STROEBEL. That is too much.

HAUTEVILLE. I was not even allowed to take along a change of
underwear. Then I am locked up with women who have every known
variety of vermin.

STROEBEL. And with all that they expect you to remain silent!

HAUTEVILLE. When I want to comb my hair, the matron gives me a
comb which these women have been using a whole week.

STROEBEL. That simply can't go on,