worse. To be treated so--and 'specially by one's own sex!--it's THAT
that aggravates me.

"And that's all you can say?

"WHAT COULD YOU DO?

"Why, break open the door; I'm sure you must have heard my voice:
you shall never make me believe you couldn't hear that. Whenever I
shall sew the strings on again, I can't tell. If they didn't turn me
out like a ship in a storm, I'm a sinner! And you laughed!

"YOU DIDN'T LAUGH?

"Don't tell me; you laugh when you don't know anything about it; but
I do.

"And a pretty place you have brought me to! A most respectable
place, I must say! Where the women walk about without any bonnets to
their heads, and the fish-girls with their bare legs--well, you don't
catch me eating any fish while I'm here.

"WHY NOT?

"Why not,--do you think I'd encourage people of that sort?

"What do you say?

"GOOD-NIGHT?