"Yes, but he doesn't exactly comprehend the meaning and purposes of his clubs. I took him in one of them, the most select, on several afternoons. The same fellows were always sitting around a window looking out, others, older ones, were asleep in armchairs. I didn't offer him anything to drink and we sat there, watching the chaps in the window and listening to their talk. The conversation was not brilliant."
"'Do these gentlemen do this all the time?' asked Jerry softly.
"'Yes, almost all the time.'
"'Don't they ever get tired of looking out of the window?'
"'They don't seem to. It's restful to watch other people working.'
"'But don't they do anything else?'
"'Not much. They're rich.'
"'And the others, the old gentlemen asleep in the chairs, are they rich too?'
"'Yes, rich too, but tired.'
"'Tired of being rich?'