John Bierce has just carried Billy Camelton upstairs against her will, kissed her full on the mouth and plopped her into a sitting room chair in a most un-grandfatherly manner. "You have spoiled everything," she tells him.
The impetuous heroine of Bernie Babcock s "Billy of Arkansas" has discovered to her sincere dismay that the women s workhouse in New York is as dangerous as the night court judge warned her it would be. She regrets not trusting him.