“We must go; it’s only that nobody knows when.”
“I think the when that nobody knows, mayn’t never come.—Is that why you have to work?”
“Everybody has to work one way or another.”
“I haven’t to work!”
“If you don’t work when you’re old enough, you’ll be miserable.”
“You’re not old enough.”
“Oh, yes, indeed I am! I’ve been working a long time now.”
“Where? Not for papa?”
“No; not for papa.”
“Why not? Why didn’t you come sooner? Why didn’t you come much sooner—ever so much sooner? Why did you make me wait for you all the time?”