"It was not a model, darling. It was a man. A guy with grey hair and a red face."
"Oh? What did he want?"
Mullett's already somewhat portly frame seemed to expand, as if with some deep emotion.
"He came to tempt me, Fanny."
"To tempt you?"
"That's what he did. Wanted to know if my name was Mullett, and two seconds after I had said it was he offered me three hundred dollars to perpetrate a crime."
"He did? What crime?"
"I didn't wait for him to tell me. I spurned his offer and came away. That'll show you if I've reformed or not. A nice, easy, simple job he said it was, that I could do in a couple of minutes."
"And you spurned him, eh?"
"I certainly spurned him. I spurned him good and plenty."