Then why don't you fight back? To be doormat to such horrors as those people is wrong. You know they try to kill a man. I don't know what he'd done, but he looks so boring - a proper gentleman, and to hang him, they were? And they take a child to question. And you here, with money and you do nothing? That's stupid, Sir, if you don't mind me saying so.

[She's being dismissed. She gets up regretfully.] Don't say I didn't warn you about Julie when there is trouble here, Sir...

[She pauses before snatching the note from Lyle.] Just one coin? It is kind, Sir, but I should like two better. And the rest of the food, if you will just throw it away?