Every word is wasted! Why did you lie to the judge?
ROSE
I was ashamed, I tell ye!… I was ashamed!
FLAMM
And I? And mother? And August? Why did you cheat us all? And you probably cheated Streckmann in the end too? And I wonder with whom else you carried on!… Yes, oh, yes; you have a very honest face. But you did right to be ashamed!
ROSE
He baited me an' he hunted me down like a dog!
FLAMM
[Laughing.] Oh, well, that's what you women make of us—dogs. This man to-day; that man to-morrow! 'Tis bitter enough to think! You can do what you please now; follow what ways you want to!—If I so much as raise a finger in this affair again, it'll be to take a rope and beat it about my ass's ears until I can't see out of my eyes!
ROSE stares at FLAMM in wide-eyed horror.