"It's God's truth, then, what the boys say?"
She hung her head.
"I thought he'd quit when I went up the river," said Dennis. "Say, let's you an' me skin out o' this. I'll get my dough to-night."
"Oh, Dennis!" she murmured, in piteous protestation, "we'd burn in eternal torment."
"We'd burn together," said Dennis. "Anyways, if this ain't torment, and if Barker ain't Beelzebub himself, I'm a liar."
She shook her head, with the tears streaming down her thin, white cheeks.
"Gee!" said Dennis, reduced to silence.
"I tuk him for better and worse," sobbed Mamie.
"You might ha' guessed that it would be worse," growled Dennis. Then, desperately, he blurted out, "Because you're dead-set on keepin' the seventh commandment, you're jest naterally drivin' me to break the sixth."
"What?"