"Well, what do you wish me to do?"
"Listen. I have just learned that this girl, in company with her family, will be in town to-day, on their way to Ohio or Kentucky, and will put up at this house. Now I wish you to so place the young lady, that I can have access to her sleeping apartment; this is all."
"I cannot do it."
"You can; I will take number eighteen for the night; put her in seventeen, and it is all I ask. I am sure this is easily done."
"And thus bring about my own shame and her dishonor?"
"I tell you she is already dishonored; and instead of bringing shame upon yourself, you take it away forever."
"Do not tempt me to do wrong! Alas, I have done too much evil already! I pray God I may be forgiven!"
"Come, now, be a good girl, and do me this one favor; it is the last I shall require of you until I give you my name."
"I cannot. Such conduct would disgrace our house."
"It need not be known."