The man now entered the conversation. “Let him go with me.”
“But he's too little to go to school.”
“He is not too little to go with me.”
“But he'll bother you, won't he?”
“No, he will not bother me. He will help me.”
“He can't help you.”
“Yes, he can help me.”
“I don't see how he can help you.”
“He will remind me of the little children in my father's house.”
“Keep you from gettin' homesick?”