You must please devote yourself to telling me at least some of the things I want to know.

What is the use of having one of the world's successful men tete-a-tete, a prisoner to my hospitality, unless I can make him gratify my curiosity ?" The thought created by her words burned through his mind like a flash of destroying lightning.
"One of the world's successful men," he repeated.

"Is that how I seem to you ?" "And to the world," she asserted.
He shook his head sadly.
"I have worked very hard," he said.

"I have been very ambitious.

A few of my ambitions have been gratified, but the glory of them has passed with attainment.