'Because I always get what I want.'

'Then you wanted to see me again?'

'Certainly. You interested me extremely. I have never met another
man who could talk so well about sculpture as the Count
Steenbock.'

'Do you really always get what you want, Miss Racksole?'

'Of course.'

'That is because your father is so rich, I suppose?'

'Oh, no, it isn't!' she said. 'It's simply because I always do get what I
want. It's got nothing to do with Father at all.'

'But Mr Racksole is extremely wealthy?'

'Wealthy isn't the word, Count. There is no word. It's positively
awful the amount of dollars poor Papa makes. And the worst of it
is he can't help it.

He told me once that when a man had made ten millions no power
on earth could stop those ten millions from growing into twenty.
And so it continues.

I spend what I can, but I can't come near coping with it; and of
course Papa is no use whatever at spending.'