“I room with another person, and thus secure more favorable terms.”
“Are your meals satisfactory?”
“The food is plain, but good. I have nothing to complain of. I should like nothing better than to feel sure that I could continue to pay my expenses at this rate.”
“That is well,” said Mr. Vivian, approvingly. “I like your spirit. You are not disposed to find unnecessary fault. Then you cannot make six dollars a week by selling papers?”
“No, sir; at least, I have not done so thus far. Yesterday I made seventy cents, and to-day about the same sum.”
“That will never do. It leaves you nothing for washing or clothes.”
“No, sir. However, I am pretty well provided with clothes. I don’t expect to require anything in that line for six months.”
“Probably you couldn’t put off washing for so long,” suggested Mr. Vivian, with a smile.
“Hardly,” answered Gilbert.
“Before you came to the city,” said Mr. Vivian, apparently changing the subject, “you were studying for college, were you not?”