“I suppose he needs somebody.”
“Oh, well, he can take one of the servants, then. It's their business to work.”
“Where do you live?” he asked, after a pause.
“I am going to live in New York.”
“Are you? I should like to go there.”
“Perhaps you wouldn't want to go as I am going.”
“What, alone? Yes, I should rather go that way. Then I could do as I pleased. Now it's 'Oscar, do this,' and 'You mustn't do that,' all the time.”
“That isn't what I mean exactly. I've got to earn my own living after I get there, and I don't know anybody in the city.”
“You haven't run away from home, have you?”
“I haven't got any home.”