You will not mind that ?" "Who?
I ?" "I take it very kind of you, your coming all this way to see us--" "I'd have come three times the distance." "But you must put up with us as you find us, you know.

The truth is we are very poor." "Well, now;--that's just what I wanted to know.

One couldn't write and ask such a question; but I was sure I should find out if I came." "You've found it out already, you see." "As for being poor, it's a thing I don't think very much about,--not for young people.

But it isn't comfortable when a man gets old.

Now what I want to know is this; can't something be done ?" "The only thing to do is to be very kind to him.