"No, you don't!" he said, and seized her hand. "Didn't I do you the best turn that was ever done you?"
"Yes," the woman quavered. "An' I wouldn't pay you back the way you say I done. I never talked about you to nobody."
"Don't lie. You know you did."
Mary remembered, but she shook her head determinedly.
"I've never once spoke your name," she said.
"I tell you to stop lying!" rejoined Dyker. "You told it once at the Settlement on Rivington Street. I know it. I learned it there myself."
"What did I tell?" asked Mary. Her tone was defiant, but her endeavor was to draw his fire.
They walked forward.
"You said I hung out at Rose's," he protested. "You said I was her lover and yours."
"I never said I had nothing to do with you, Mr. Dyker. I don't care who told you I did; I never said no such thing."