course according to her dreadful for the man she created a great scene broke some over his head and caused a general uproar in the house it is an old trick your timid man hearing this and being possibly a new or adventurer in this world becomes fearful of a scene many men are timid about with a woman beforehand it too much of the brutal and evil and after all there is a certain element of romance involved in these for the average man even if there is none � as there is none � for the woman it is an old sad sickening grim story to most of them and men are fools dogs with rarely anything fine or interesting in their eyes when they see the l st chance to betray one of th i a at forty and rob or him in any way and by any trick they are ready to do it this girl e had been by perhaps a hundred experienced of the street as to how this was done i know this is so for afterwards she told me of how other women did it but to continue he laid a sovereign on the table and i went for him she said i smiled not so much in derision as amusement the story did not fit her obviously it was not so oh no you did n t i replied you are telling me one of the oldest stories of the trade now the truth is you are a silly little liar and you think you are going to frighten me by telling me this into giving you two or three pounds you can save yourself the trouble i don t intend to do it i had every intention of giving her two or three if it suited my mood later but she was not to know this now my little girl was all at sea at once her powerless but really sweet eyes showed it something hurt � the pathos of her courage and endurance in the face of my contemptuous attitude i had made fun of her obvious little lies and at her transparent tricks i m a new experience in men i suggested men i don t want to know anything more about them she returned with sudden fury i m sick of them � the whole lot of them if i could get out of this i would i wish i need never see another man i did not doubt the sincerity of this outburst but i affected not to believe her it s true she insisted sullenly you say that but that s talk if you wanted to get out you would why don t you get a job at something you can work it a girl of the streets i don t know any trade now and i m too old to learn what nonsense you re not more than nineteen and you could do anything you pleased you won t though you are like all the others this is the easy way come i said more gently put on your things and let s get out of this and without a word she put on her coat and her hat and we turned to the door look here i said i have n t meant to be unkind and heaven knows i ve no right to throw stones at you we are all in a bad mess in this world � you and i and the rest you don t know what i m talking about and it does n t matter and now let s find a good quiet where we can dine slowly and comfortably like two friends who have a lot to talk over in a moment she was all animation the suggestion that i was going to act toward her as though she were a lady was according to her standards wildly well you re funny she replied laughing you really are funny and i could see that for once in a long time perhaps the faintest touch of romance had entered this sordid world for her as we came out seeing that my attitude had changed so she asked would you get me a box of i have n t any change surely i said and we stepped into a s shop from there we took a to a certain which she seemed to regard as sufficiently luxurious and from there � but i ll tell this in detail tell me i said after she had given the order picking something for herself and me you say you come from wales tell me the name of a typical a at forty town which is nearer london than some of the others � some place which is really poor and hard worked well where i come from was pretty bad she ventured giving me some name the people have n t got much to live on there i wish you might have heard the peculiar of her accent and how far is that she gave me the hours from london and the railroad fare in shillings i think it was about three hours at most and s pretty bad she added there s lots of mines there very deep ones too the people are poor there have you ever been in a mine yes sir i smiled at her civility for in entering and leaving the room of the house of she had helped me on and off with my overcoat quite as a servant might i learned a little about wales through her � its life � and then we came back to london how much did the average street girl really make i wanted to know she could n t tell me and she was quite honest about it some make more than others she said i m not very good at it she confessed i can t make 