"McMullins has fits, and it would not be safe to leave her in solitary all night. I should not sleep at all if she were there. I am sorry for you, O'Brien; but you don't wish McMullins to remain, in solitary because you must, do you?"
"No, ma'am; but it don't seem hardly fair to let one out, and not the other."
She was using the same argument with me to get her bed that I had used with the Deputy to get it for her.
"When you have been here before, and been punished, you have behaved very badly, have you not?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Annie O'Brien, will you be patient to-night, and make no complaints?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"In the morning, when the Deputy comes around, will you tell him that you will try to govern your temper?"
"I will tell you so."
"Will you tell him so?"