"And do you mean to say that we shall be turned loose into one of these cages with a herd of other visitors ?" "No.

You are not turned loose anywhere in a prison.

The arrangement is this: each cage is divided by partitions into a number of small boxes or apartments, which are numbered.

The prisoner is locked in one box and his visitor in the corresponding box opposite.

They are thus confronted, with the width of the alley between them; they can see one another and talk but cannot pass any forbidden articles across--a very necessary precaution, I need hardly say." "Yes, I suppose it is necessary, but it is horrible for decent people.
Surely they ought to be able to discriminate." "Why not give it up and let me take a message to Reuben?
He would understand and be thankful to me for dissuading you." "No, no," she said quickly; "the more repulsive it is the greater the necessity for me to go.