"Yes, thank God, she is living, and my sister Grace as well."
"Did your father lose all his property?"
"All."
"How, then, is your mother getting along?"
Rupert explained.
"And yourself? Are you in any employment?"
"I have been a bell-boy in a New York hotel for the last year and a half."
"You could hardly be very well paid."
"Yes, I received larger pay than I would have received in a mercantile house. But I have finally given up the business."
"What do you propose to do?"