Tiki. My whole life is a want, Mee-Mee! If you come with me you will lose everything!
Mee. I got not’ing to lose, Tiki.
Tiki. You will be hungry!
Mee. I’ve been hungly for t’ree years, Tiki.
Tiki. Homeless—perhaps!
Mee. I never had a home, Tiki.
Tiki. Friendless!
Mee. Ah ha!
Tiki. Poor!—poorer than the poorest you have known. Look under this ... this robe.... [Bewildered, he finds that he is wearing a strange garment.] ... I have only my old rags. And you——
Mee. [Showing herself.] I jus’ de same!