A. Scarcely, as a new suit, or a nearly new suit of clothes would be requisite to give one the air of respectability necessary for securing an audience with an employer.
Q. Could you not become a company promoter?
A. Not with safety, now that the winding-up business is superintended by a judge capable of understanding the intricacies of city finance.
Q. Is there any opening for you as a cab-driver?
A. No, as a license cannot be obtained for love, but must be bought with money.
Q. Surely you have a chance as a slave to journalism?
A. Writing for the press is at all times precarious, and is, moreover, a calling which cannot be followed without a small but impossible expenditure on pens, ink. and paper.
Q. Has not life sometimes been supported by the successful attempts to borrow from one's friends?
A. Yes, but this financial condition will have been enjoyed and abandoned before one can truthfully style oneself an ex-capitalist.
Q. The sale of information of an interesting character to those concerned has sometimes—has it not—been found of a profitable nature?