human
Listen Mr. Beck, for one moment. Your income is £500,000 a year. You may spend on your own simple wants £5,000. Bah! a trifle--not a quarter of the interest. You save the whole; in ten years you have three millions. You are still under fifty?
gpt
Forty-five, sir.
human
I wish I was forty-five. You may live and work for another quarter of a century. In that time you ought to be worth twelve millions at least. Twelve millions!
gpt
Nearly as much as ran away and was lost when the Ile was struck, said Mr. Beck.
human
Hardly worth while to work for five-and-twenty years in order to save what Nature spent in three days, is it?