Thinking this, Matilda followed her two companions up the wide staircase. Another world of shops and buyers and sellers up there! What a very wonderful place New York must be. And Stewart's.
"Does everybody come here?" she whispered to Judy.
"Pretty much everybody," said that young lady. "They have to."
"Then they can't buy things anywhere else?"
"What do you mean?" said Judith looking at her.
"I mean, is this the only place where people can get things? are there any more stores beside this?"
Judith's eyes snapped in a way that Matilda resolved she would not provoke again.
"More stores?" she said. "New York is all stores, except the streets where people live."
"Does nobody live in the streets where the stores are?" Matilda could not help asking.
"No. Nobody but the people that live in the stores, you know; that's nobody."