I had that satisfaction at all events. I knocked
two of his teeth out.
KNOX. And you sit there coolly and tell me this!
MARGARET. Well, where do you want me to sit? Whats the use of saying
things like that?
KNOX. My daughter in Holloway Gaol!
MARGARET. All the women in Holloway are somebody's daughters.
Really, father, you must make up your mind to it. If you had sat in
that cell for fourteen days making up your mind to it, you would
understand that I'm not in the humor to be gaped at while youre trying
to persuade yourself that it cant be real. These things really do
happen to real people every day; and you read about them in the papers
and think it's all right. Well, theyve happened to me: thats all.
KNOX. [feeble-forcible] But they shouldnt have happened to you.
Dont you know that?
MARGARET. They shouldnt happen to anybody, I suppose. But they do.
[Rising impatiently] And really I'd rather go out and assault
another policeman and go back to Holloway than keep talking round and
round it like this. If youre going to turn me out of the house, turn
me out: the sooner I go the better.
DUVALLET. [rising quickly] That is impossible, mademoiselle. Your
father has his position to consider. To turn his daughter out of
doors would ruin him socially.
KNOX. Oh, youve put her up to that, have you? And where did you come
in, may I ask?
DUVALLET. I came in at your invitation--at your amiable insistence,
in fact, not at my own.
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