“You vill not stay zen here?” [pg 73] “My dear Baron, why should I? I have neither friends nor——”
He stopped abruptly.
“I do not like to zink I shall lose your company so soon.”
“I admit,” allowed Mr Bunker, “that this fortunate meeting tempts me to stay.”
“Vy not?” said the Baron, cordially. “Can your fader not vait to see you?”
“I hardly think he will worry about me, I confess.”
“Zen stay, my goot Bonker!”
“Unfortunately there is the same difficulty as stands in the way of my going to Egypt.”
“And may I inquire vat zat is?”
“To tell you the truth,” replied Mr Bunker, with an air of reluctant candour, “my funds are rather low. I had trusted to finding my father at home, but as he isn’t, why——” he shrugged his shoulders and threw himself back in his chair.