"Only because my work makes it convenient."
"But you wouldn't give up your work?"
"I should give up some of it, that I do at present. I don't say I should give up all work."
"Oh no, you couldn't do that."
"But I shouldn't have to live in London in order to work. I would much rather live out of it, and have it to go to."
"That is what I really feel about Culbut. If we could live here, just as we do, without feeling that we were different from other people, I should like it better than living in Culbut itself. Do they look down on the rich people living in the suburbs near London, as they do here?"
"There is a tendency that way," I admitted. "How would you like to live at Cambridge? I should be amongst friends, and there would be plenty to do there."
"I think it would be delightful from what you have told me about it. You could do your work there, couldn't you?"
"Yes, I could do a lot of work, if I wanted to; and I could always get a game of some sort."