Said that practical damsel, when the matter was put up to her by Big Kitty, who being sentimental called Goldie Cora a quitter for leaving her dead love lying in his blood, “What good could I do? If I'd stuck I'd have got pinched; an' then—me in th' Tombs—I'd have stood a swell chance, I don't chink, of bein' at Bill's funeral.”