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!