Again he laughed. "Once," he said, "I thought you were the prettiest girl I'd ever seen. But I've seen a prettier."
"I believe you."
"'But you've got a certain spirit. You don't cringe."
"Don't I?"
"No!" he bellowed, "you don't." And when he saw that she didn't cringe, he laughed once more.
"You live with Minnie Bauer?"
"Yes, sir."
"You have no father--no mother?"
"No, sir."
"Burnt alive in a tenement fire, weren't they?"