He refilled and lighted his pipe before he replied.
"I've never wondered much about the young man who went away sad because he had great possessions," he said gently. "But I've wondered a lot what he did—afterwards. The book doesn't tell us that."
"I don't understand."
"It isn't being rich that counts, Miss Wynrod," he said with a passionate earnestness that she seldom saw in him, "it's what you do with your riches. That's the question you've got to ask yourself."
"Don't most rich people do that?" she asked.
"Some—yes. Most? Umm—I'm inclined to think—not."
"You think even those that do, get the wrong answer, don't you?"
"Mostly—yes."
His assurance vaguely irritated her. She put her question rather sharply.
"Mr. Good, if you were wealthy—oh, very wealthy—what would you do?"