"Money can do a great deal," said Lois.
"What can do more?"
Lois lifted up her eyes and looked at her questioner inquiringly. Did he know no better than that?
"With money, one can do everything," he went on, though struck by her expression.
"Yes," said Lois; "and yet—all that never satisfied anybody."
"Satisfied!" cried Philip. "Satisfied is a very large word. Who is satisfied?"
Lois glanced up again, mutely.
"If I dared venture to say so—you look, Miss Lothrop, you absolutely look, as if you were; and yet it is impossible."
"Why is it impossible?"
"Because it is what all the generations of men have been trying for, ever since the world began; and none of them ever found it."