Let's have the story." "Hm! It ain't much, I s'pose," she answered still half-suspiciously.
"Bill and me was livin' together, that's all.

No, not married, nor nothin'-- but--" "All right.

Go on." "That was last winter.

When the kid happened--Ed, you know--Bill, he got sore, an' beat it.

Then I--I went on the street, to keep Ed.