At home Jimmie finds that Maggie has returned and Mary is brutally mocking and deriding her.  Maggie is obviously shaken but this does not deter Mary whose thunderous denunciations of her daughter bring the other tenement residents to observe.  The residents watch as though they are viewing a play and they comment to each other and offer opinions freely.  One woman's baby begins to crawl toward Maggie but the frightened mother grabs her wayward child away from the ruined girl with a loud cry of alarm.  The mother presents her daughter as though she were an exhibit on display.  "Dere she stands," she cries pointing an accusatory figure at Maggie.  Seeing her brother Maggie pitifully says his name but he steps back from her.  "Well, now, yer a hell of a t'ing ain't yeh?" he says with a sanctimonious air.  Hearing this, Maggie leaves the room and as she does so a woman snatches a baby out of her path lest she dirty it with her touch.  As Maggie leaves other residents peer curiously out from their doorway.  Only the old woman on the next floor speaks to her however and invites her to stay the night with her.  All the while Maggie's mother's laughter rings in the young girl's ears.