Mouzon. Your husband is very grasping.

Yanetta. Poor people are forced to be very grasping or else to die of starvation.

Mouzon. You defend him well.

Yanetta. Did you suppose I was going to accuse him?

Mouzon. Have you ever been convicted?

Yanetta [anxious] Me?

Mouzon. Yes, you.

Yanetta [weakly] No, I've never been convicted.

Mouzon. That is curious because there was a girl of your name in Paris who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for receiving stolen property.

Yanetta [weakly] For receiving stolen property—