“Well, then, you don’t require me, and can fly on your own wings. The people who are taking me to Paris would probably not care for me if I had you for a companion.”
“You promised not to abandon me.”
“Can a man who leaves another well provided for and an assured future be said to abandon him?”
“Well provided! I have not got a penny.”
“What do you want with money? You have a good table, a good lodging, clothes, linen, attendance, and so forth. And if you want pocket-money, why don’t you ask your brethren the monks?”
“Ask monks for money? They take it, but they don’t give it.”
“Ask your friends, then.”
“I have no friends.”
“You are to be pitied, but the reason probably is that you have never been a friend to anyone. You ought to say masses, that is a good way of getting money.”
“I am unknown.”