"I don't see how they could," said Violet.
Hermann could not see how they could do anything else, but he only shrugged his broad shoulders.
"They don't last long anyvays," he remarked.
"You mean they die soon?"
"Effery five year all de girls is new: it's as sure as life insurance."
The girl shuddered, but mastered herself.
"Don't mind that," she reassured him. "I want to know—honest. Katie and Carrie won't be bothered——"
"We can't hear a word you're sayin', darlin'," laughed Katie.
"An', honest," Violet concluded. "There's some things I think I've got to learn so's I can see it—see it all."
She appealed, it happened, to an authority. Hermann supplemented his Marx with facts and statistics of a later date, especially upon the point at issue, and he was only too glad to find in Violet the listener that he could never discover in Katie.