"Ain't you Teresa ?" She was prepared for the question, but evidently was not certain whether she would reply defiantly or confidently.

After an exhaustive scrutiny of his face she chose the latter, and said, "You can bet your life on it, Johnny." "I don't bet, and my name isn't Johnny.

Then you're the woman who stabbed Dick Curson over at Lagrange's ?" She became defiant again.
"That's me, all the time.

What are you going to do about it ?" "Nothing.

And you used to dance at the Alhambra ?" She whisked the shawl from her shoulders, held it up like a scarf, and made one or two steps of the sembicuacua.