EEL: I ain't said half what I'm going to say—
INSPECTOR: (Fiercely.) Not another word out of you. Do you understand?
EEL: (Coming down.) All right, Inspector. I don't want to get anybody that's right, in bad, but I've got something up my sleeve. (DUGAN laughs and goes up stage.) (GOLDIE enters door L. brought in by O'MARA. She is startled at seeing EEL, then pleadingly:)
GOLDIE: Billy! (EEL turns and is about to go to GOLDIE but stops.)
EEL: You snitched again! You snitched again! (Running L. to GOLDIE with arms up as though to hit her with hand-cuffs. GOLDIE snatches his upraised arms.)
GOLDIE: Oh no, Billy! True as God I didn't!
DUGAN: (Aside to INSPECTOR.) Let's leave them alone, they'll talk.
(MRS. WORTHINGTON, INSPECTOR, DUGAN and O'MARA exit door R.)
GOLDIE: (Still holding EEL'S arms.) Why, I'd rather die than snitch.
EEL: (Jerking away and going R.) How about two years ago?
GOLDIE: I didn't even then when you left me dying. They framed you while I was in the hospital.