“They told me at the hotel that he was going to sail to South America. His eyes are weak, you know, and the doctor thinks the voyage will do him good.”
“I wonder he didn't take the Carter boy with him, he seemed infatuated with him.”
“He don't care anything about Carter. At any rate, he will forget all about him, now he is away. The beggarly upstart will have to draw in his horns now. He won't put on so many airs, I'm thinking.”
“How much did Cameron pay him for reading to him?”
“Five dollars a week.”
“A perfectly preposterous price.”
“So I think. But he won't get it now.”
“They'll find it hard to get along.”
“Of course they will. They can't pay you interest on the mortgage now.”
“I don't see how they can.”