“Two dollars! That’s carfare for three weeks.”
“Of course, if you look at it that way. But here we are away uptown, and––hanged if I know how to get out.”
He looked around, as bewildered as a lost child. She could not help laughing.
“If you’re as helpless as that I don’t see how you ever get home at night,” she said.
He looked in every direction, but he did not see a car line. He turned to her.
“I won’t help you,” she said, shaking her head.
“Then we’ll have to walk until we come to the Elevated,” he determined.
“All right,” she nodded. “Only, if you don’t go in the right direction you will walk all night before you come to the Elevated.”
“I can ask some one, can’t I?”