He was never rich in anything but thoughts." She smiled brilliantly.
"How silly!" she said.
"Yes, he was very silly," agreed Helmsley, watching her narrowly from under his half-closed eyelids.

"But most thinkers are silly, even when they don't take opium.

They believe in Love." She coloured.

She caught the sarcastic inflection in his tone.

But she was silent.
"Most men who have lived and worked and suffered," he went on, "come to know before they die that without a great and true love in their lives, their work is wasted, and their sufferings are in vain.