“It is too small for me. Besides, it would attract general attention.”
“Seems to me somebody is getting proud,” sneered Oscar. “Perhaps you think Annie Raymond wouldn’t walk with you in that suit?”
“I think it would make no difference to her,” said Joe. “She was willing to walk with me in this ragged suit.”
“I don’t admire her taste.”
“She didn’t walk with my clothes; she walked with me.”
“A hired boy!”
“Yes, I am a hired boy; but I don’t get very good pay.”
“You feel above your business, that’s what’s the matter with you.”
“I hope some time to get higher than my business,” said Joe. “I mean to rise in the world, if I can.”
Oscar shrugged his shoulders.