Some don't have any business--except what they're doing now." "I want to know! Humph! They remind me of the gang in the billiard-room back home.

The billiard-roomers--the chronic ones--don't have any business, either, except to keep the dust from collectin' on the chairs.
That and talkin' about hard times.

These chaps don't seem to be sufferin' from hard times, much." "No.

Most of the younger set have rich fathers or have inherited money." "I see.

They let the old man do the worryin'.