"I am not stationary anywhere. I have no fixed home."
"Why don't you go into business?"
"Partly because I am blessed with a sufficiency of this world's goods."
"But I should think the time would hang heavy on your hands."
"Well, you see I have something to do in looking after my property. Besides, I am literary."
"Are you an author?"
"I occasionally write for magazines and reviews. I am a graduate of Columbia College. If I had the spur of necessity, perhaps I might make some mark in literature. As it is, I don't have that motive for working hard. I am rather glad I don't, for I am afraid I shouldn't be able to live at the Gilsey House if I depended upon what I could earn by my pen. Well, have you seen enough of Central Park?"
"I am ready to go anywhere else, sir."
"Then I will go with you to the other end of the city and beyond. Have you ever heard of Staten Island?"