Tobias glanced sideways at the kid, before turning his eyes back on the road. From what the boy told him, it sounded like he had been out on the streets for a long time, and Tobias felt pang of pity, as well as anger about the fact that this could happen in a civilized country. Someone should have noticed and found the boy a home or taken him to the orphanage. Had the kid even finished school?

"You can hand your laundry to Jimmy every Saturday. It'll go to his mother, the washerwoman, with the rest. You'll get it back on Tuesday."