4. A scrooge type takes his son, maybe it's me, with him while collecting rent in these tenements. He has his whole family with him. They leave the car on the outskirts and walk to this small, dingy, indescribably dirty and bug-infested room where there's a man and 2 women who have not yet paid their rent. The scrooge type is saying how he only makes a few pennies on each one and it's only because he owns 340 of them that he can survive. So he can't afford for anyone to be late in paying their rent. Then I was wondering whether to say with 340 houses, he must be rich or to say if he only made a few pennies he can afford to miss one. I keep noticing how black and spidery everything is. One of the women is suggesting that the 2 women decide never to leave to the outside world in order that the man can go and earn the rent.