"After all, Dolly, one can't keep always going somewhere. One must come to a stop."
"The best way is not to think of that till one is obliged to do it," said Lawrence. "Enjoy while you have to enjoy."
"That ain't a very safe maxim, seems to me," said Rupert. "One's rope might get twisted up."
"It is the maxim of a great many wise men," said Lawrence, ignoring the figure.
"Is it wise?" said Dolly. "Would you spend your money so, like your time? spend to the last farthing, before you made any provision for what was to be next?"
"No, for I need not. In money matters one can always take care to have means ahead."
"So you can in the other thing."
"How?" said Rupert, and "How?" said Lawrence, in the same breath. "You cannot always, as Mrs. Copley said, go on finding new places to go to and new things to see."
"I'd have what would put me above the need of that."
"What? Philosophy? Stoicism?"