 Why was O'Leary sharing his concerns with the warden?
And, what was more important, why she couldn't adjust herself to it, now that she was in. And O'Leary was a man who lived by the book. That old witch Mathias never told me I was supposed to mop up. Captain O'Leary took a long drink of water from the fountain marked "Civil Service." A bleary old inmate orderly stood up straight and touched his cap as O'Leary passed by. O'Leary was a broad-minded man and many times he had thought almost with a touch of envy how comfortable it must be to be a wipe—a laborer . She was in a detachment of three unfortunates like herself, convoyed by an irritable guard, climbing the steel steps toward Block O from the floor below, when she heard the yelling.
 he was hoping to stop a potential riot
 he was frustrated with the lack of help he was getting  he was mad that inmates were playing together  he was hoping to stop a potential riot  he thought the prison had a terrible smell