"Thank you! Let it be nonsense if you will. It seems to me that there is a great deal of nonsense going on in the world; but very little of it as true as what I say now."
"But it is your duty to know. Of course you cannot stay here."
"Nor you, I suppose,—without me."
"I am not speaking of myself. If you choose, I can remain here."
"And—just throw me overboard altogether."
"If you provide another home for me, I will go to it. However poor it may be I will go to it, if you bid me. But for you,—of course you cannot stay here."
"Has your father told you to say so to me?"
"No;—but I can say so without his telling me. You are banishing him from his own house. He has put up with it while he thought that you were going to this foreign country; but there must be an end of that now. You must have some scheme of life?"
"Upon my soul I have none."
"You must have some intentions for the future?"