"Lot o' useless guff!" "Then why don't you study some useful guff ?" "What do you mean: 'useful' ?" "Something you'd use later, in your business or profession ?" George waved his hand impatiently.

"I don't expect to go into any 'business or profession." "No ?" "Certainly not!" George was emphatic, being sincerely annoyed by a suggestion which showed how utterly she failed to comprehend the kind of person he was.
"Why not ?" she asked mildly.
"Just look at 'em!" he said, almost with bitterness, and he made a gesture presumably intended to indicate the business and professional 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..