“Idt iss yoost vot I mean.”
“Had anything to eat lately, you two?”
“Nodt anyt’ings.”
“Well, you stay right here and be good, and I’ll bring you something.”
“Why can’t we go out into the other room?” asked the woman. “It seems to me I’d give anything for a breath of fresh air.”
“Well, you see, you couldn’t eat out there without a light, and a light might tell tales; so you’d better do the eating act in here.”
“Yaw! Dot iss so,” the baron agreed. “How longk do ve haf to sday here?”
The blond-haired man laughed.
“Wow!” he gurgled. “I’ll have to keep you here as long as I get that thousand dollars a week. Unless,” he added, “you could make it fifteen hundred, and buy me off. I’m on the make.”