“I don’t wish to be escorted gratis.”
“Very well; then I will just go to the end of the street with you, merely to give you certain points, which you will find very useful some other day when you come to buy.”
“But suppose I don’t want to even hear you talk about buying?”
“Very well, then, let us talk about something else. How long have you been in Constantinople? Is your hotel comfortable? Have you gotten permits to visit the mosques?”
“But when I tell you that I don’t want to talk about anything—that I wish, in short, to be alone—”
“All right; then I will leave you alone, and follow a dozen steps behind you.”
“But why should you follow me at all?”
“Merely to prevent you from being cheated in the shops.”
“But I tell you I am not going into the shops.”