'A great deal of time, if it is to be done often.'
'Yes.'
'Mr. Pitt, if you follow out that sort of business, it would leave you time for nothing else.'
'What better can I do with my time?'
'Just suppose everybody did the like!'
'Suppose they did.'
'What would be the state of things?'
'I should say, the world would be in a better state of health; and that elephant we once spoke of would not shake his head quite so often.'
'But you are not the elephant, as I pointed out, if I remember; the world does not rest on your head.'
'Part of it does. Go on and answer my question. What ought I to do for these people of whom I have told you?'