“My husband beats me,” she lies, “but it’s not really his fault. He just doesn’t know any better. We love each other, so I stick around. Anyway, it’s the only game in town.”
she lies as she knows that, unlike the cabbie earlier that "goes with the territory", this cabbie has shown via his choice of radio show he will judge her. So she plays the stricken wife subsurvient to her husband and it works.
