“It was in the meanwhile I meant,” she said.
“I am going a little way up the track with my partner to a copper-mine.”
“Ah,” said the girl reflectively, “I suppose you feel that you must take that man?”
“What else could I do with him?”
Ida’s eyes softened curiously. After the scene at the station she fancied that she understood the responsibility that he had taken upon himself.
“And suppose they don’t want you at the mine?”
“In that case we should go on again somewhere else.”
“Of course your partner, who can earn nothing, will go with you.”
Then she spoke almost sharply.
“How much money have you in your joint possession?”