"And why not?"
"Well, there were my relatives. They wouldn't have wanted to keep me any more, or her either, I guess."
"I see. They wouldn't have considered you fit for the work you were doing, or her either. Is that it?"
"I thought so, anyhow," replied Clyde.
"And then what?"
"Well, even if I had wanted to go away with her and marry her, I didn't have enough money to do that and she didn't either. I would have had to give up my place and gone and found another somewhere before I could let her come. Besides that, I didn't know any place where I could go and earn as much as I did there."
"How about hotel work? Couldn't you have gone back to that?"
"Well, maybe—if I had had an introduction of some kind. But I didn't want to go back to that."
"And why not?"
"Well, I didn't like it so much any more—not that kind of life."