Now that shows how you don't take notice o' nothin'! They c'n work your daughter till she drops; they c'n try an' make her drag in wood at ten o'clock in the evenin'. That's why she run away. An' you take that kind o' thing an' say thank you. Maybe you'd give the child a hidin' and send her back to the people.
JULIUS
Sure!—That's what!—What d'you think …
MRS. WOLFF
Things like that hadn't ought to go unpunished. If anybody hits me, I'll hit him back. That's what I says.
JULIUS
Well, did they go an' hit the girl?
MRS. WOLFF
Why should she be runnin' away, Julius? But no, there ain't no use tryin' to do anything with you. Now the wood is lyin' out there in the alley. An' if I was to say: all right, you abuse my children, I'll take your wood—a nice face you'd make.