“Live there?”
“I expect to live there.”
“Brought up in the country, perhaps?”
“Yes, in Planktown.”
“Oh, Planktown! I've heard it's a nice place, but never visited it. Got any folks?”
Phil hesitated. In the light of the revelation that had been made to him by Mrs. Brent, he did not know how to answer. However, there was no call to answer definitely.
“Not many,” he said.
“Goin' to school in New York?”
“No.”
“To college, perhaps. I've got a cousin in Columbia College.”