The grin flickered on his face.
"The money is yours, the position is yours, the decisions will lie with you. I'm not just my lady's fucker, after all."
"What else are you?"
"You may well ask. It no doubt is invisible. Yet I'm something to myself at least. I can see the point of my own existence, though I can quite understand nobody else's seeing it."
"And will your existence have less point, if you live with me?"
He paused a long time before replying:
"It might."
She too stayed to think about it.
"And what is the point of your existence?"
"I tell you, it's invisible. I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilisation. If there's got to be a future for humanity, there'll have to be a very big change from what now is."