"And pay rent?"
"You would have to pay rent of course."
"Thank you, no. It would be dishonest, as I know I should never pay it."
"You are too old, I fear, for the public service."
"You mean a desk in the Treasury,--with a hundred a year. Yes; I think I am too old."
"But have you no plan of your own?"
"Not much of one. Sometimes I have thought I would go to New Zealand."

"You are too old, I fear, for the civil service."
"You mean a desk in the Treasury, with a hundred a year. Yes; I think I am too old."
"But have you no plan of your own?"
"Not much of one. Sometimes I have thought I would go to New Zealand."
