"How could it be anything else with no friends along?"
"With McCrea and two secretaries and a stenographer, I hadn't time to take any friends."
"What is time for?"
"I should say in the West it is valuable for getting home with."
"And when you do get home?"
"To build more; borrow more; control more; sell more; spend more. I'm speaking for all the rest of you, not for myself. I'm just the centrifugal to throw the money out."
"Never by any chance to live more, I suppose?"
"You mean to eat and drink more? How could we?"
"I don't mean to eat and drink more. I mean just what I say, to live more!"
They were at the threshold of the music room. He laughed good-naturedly, but Lottie declined to be appeased.