"Don't you know why I am sentenced?"
MARGOT: "No; and you need not tell me if you don't want to. How long are you here for?"
THE WOMAN (in a penetrating voice): "Life!"
MARGOT: "That's impossible; no one is punished for life unless they commit murder; and even then the sentence is always shortened."
THE WOMAN: "Shortened in time for what? For your death and burial? Perhaps you don't know how kind they are to us here! No one is allowed to die in prison! But by the time your health is gone, your hair white and your friends are dead, your family do not need you and all that can be done for you is done by charity. You die and your eyes are closed by your landlady."
MARGOT: "Tell me what you did."
THE WOMAN: "Only what all you fashionable women do every day …"
MARGOT: "What?"
THE WOMAN: "I helped those who were in trouble to get rid of their babies."
MARGOT: "Did you take money for it?"