32/38 If you offer me one it is because you have a week's supply at least." "Exactly," said Keyork. "And a few to spare, because they will only keep a week as I like them, and because I would no more run the risk of missing my orange a week hence for your sake, than I would deprive myself of it to-day." "And that is your simplicity." "That is my simplicity. It is indeed a perfectly simple matter, for there is only one idea in it, and in all things I carry that one idea out to its ultimate expression. That one idea, as you very well put it, is to have exactly what I want in this world." "And will you be getting what you want in having me quartered upon you as poor Israel Kafka's keeper ?" asked the Wanderer, with an expression of amusement. |