“Oh yes, I guess there’s no doubt of that. I’m going to get pa to send me some nice pictures to hang on the wall. When you come back here on a visit you’ll see how nice it looks.”
“I think it will be a good while before I come here on a visit.”
“Yes. I s’pose it’ll make you feel bad. Where are you going?”
“To the City of New York.”
“You’ll have to live in a small hall bedroom there.”
“Why will I?”
“Because you are poor, and it costs a good deal of money to live in New York. It’ll be a great come down.”
“It will indeed, but if I can earn enough to support me in plain style I won’t complain. I suppose you’ll call and see me when you come to New York?”
“Perhaps so, if you don’t live in a tenement house. Pa objects to my going to tenement houses. There’s no knowing what disease there may be in them.”
“It is well to be prudent,” said Rodney, smiling.