Maybe she was more sinned against than sinning,--and that Divine One Who reads all hearts and knows the temptations and snares which beset unwary feet, would say to her--"Go, and sin no more!" In another cell was an old offender who had a face furrowed with sin.
As we looked at her I could see that she regarded our presence as an intrusion.

I recalled Dr.Watt's lines: "Sinners who grow old in sin Are hardened in their crimes." Yet there is an awakening of the conscience at last, and even a prison house with its corrections may be a door of escape from that other prison of the sinful soul from which no one can go forth, be he culprit or juror, counsellor or judge, until his pardon is pronounced by Him who can forgive sins..