"It's a dressmaker's, although you might think it was an asylum for dope fiends.

I've got a bedroom, sitter and bath on the top floor.

The house is a rabbit warren of bedrooms, sitters and baths, and in every one of them there's some poor devil trying to squeeze a little kindness out of fate.

That wretched taxi driver! He may have a wife waiting for him.

Do you think that red-haired feller's got to the hospital yet?
He had a nice cut on his own silly face--and serve him right! I hope it'll teach him that he hasn't bought the blooming world--but of course it won't.