"The Lion laughed. 'You have heaps more than you require. Can you name one good thing you have done with your money or your influence since I plainly pointed the way out to you how to acquire them?'
"There was no answer.
"'Will you still decide to acquire those shares dishonestly?'
"'Anybody in the City or on 'Change would do the same thing, it is done every day.'
"'Because burglaries may be committed every night, is it any reason why you should commit one?'
"'The world is the world,' replied the Alderman. 'I have to live in it, and I have to fight it with its own weapons.'
"'You have no wife.'
"'No, Lal.'
"'No child.'
"'No.'