men now dancing within range of vision. "That's a fine career for a
man, isn't it! Lawyers, bankers, politicians! What do they get out
of life, I'd like to know! What do they ever know about real things?
Where do they ever get?"

He was so earnest that she was surprised and impressed. Evidently he
had deep-seated ambitions, for he seemed to speak with actual emotion
of these despised things which were so far beneath his planning for
the future. She had a vague, momentary vision of Pitt, at twenty-one,
prime minister of England; and she spoke, involuntarily in a lowered
voice, with deference:

"What do you want to be?" she asked.

George answered promptly.

"A yachtsman," he said.




Chapter VI



Having thus, in a word, revealed his ambition for a career above
courts, marts, and polling booths, George breathed more deeply than
usual, and, turning his face from the lovely companion whom he had
just made his confidant, gazed out at the dancers with an expression
in which there was both sternness and a contempt for the squalid lives