Naomi: “Both. Have you ever been married?”
Jack: “Never.”
Naomi: “What are you?”
Jack: “Nothing. It’s the occupation I am most fitted for.”
Naomi: “Oh, you must be something?”
Jack: “No.”
Naomi: “What were you before you were what you are now?”
Jack: “A little boy.”...
Naomi: “Mr. Farintosh was saying at table that you had been in the army. Were you a horse-soldier or a foot-soldier?”
Jack: “A foot-soldier,—a very foot-soldier.”