She wouldn't take mine and she won't let me help her.

She got work at first on 14th Street, in that big store near the Square, and worked there for a while, that was when she was with Dalton.
But Dalton drove her out.

And when she was near dead, with nothing to eat, some people picked her up and she stayed with them all night--she never told me where.

That was last spring.

She stood it for some months living from hand to mouth, she working her fingers to the bone for him, until she was afraid of her life and left him again.