'You have been studying it?'
'I have been studying it for years.'
'What Life is good for?' said the young lady, with again a lift of her eyes which expressed a little disdain and a little impatience. But she saw Pitt's face with a thoughtful earnestness upon it; he was not watching her eyes, as he ought to have been. Her somewhat petulant words he answered simply.
'What question of more moment can there be? I am here, a human creature with such and such powers and capacities; I am here for so many years, not numerous; what is the best thing I can do with them and myself?'
'Get all the good out of them you can.'
'Certainly! but you observe that is no answer to my question of "how."'
'Good is pleasure, isn't it?'
'Is it?'
'I think so.'
'Make pleasure lasting, and perhaps I should agree with you. But how can you do that?'