“I—I—I must get away.”
“Well, even so; is this the way to do it? I thought someone was tearing the house down. It woke me up.”
“I was goin’ this way because—because I didn’t want you to know what’d become of me.”
“Yes, and have you on my mind.”
“I hoped I’d be takin’ myself off your mind.”
“If you want to take yourself off my mind there’s a perfectly simple means of doing it.”
“I’ll do anything—but take money.”
“And taking money is the only thing I ask of you.”
“I can’t. It’d—it’d—shame me.”
“Shame you? What nonsense!”