Part 5 (1/2)
”Yes, I should think so.”
”How much do you ask for it?”
”'Ask for it?' Ask for what?”
”For an interest in it, either a part or the whole?”
”What?”
”You ought to make a good thing out of it--out of your patent.”
”My patent! I haven't any patent.”
”What! No patent?”
”No. It's for the good of people generally.”
”But you got a patent?”
”No.”
”Couldn't you get a patent?”
”I don't know.”
”Well, I'll be bound I'd have got a patent.”
”Oh! no, I don't think so.”
”I tell you what, you ought to turn your talents to account,” said his friend.
”Yes, I know I ought.”
”You could be a rich man.”
”But I don't care to be rich.”
”What! Oh! nonsense. Everyone does.”
”I do not. I want to live.”
”But you don't live.”
”Well, maybe I shall some day.”
”You merely exist.”
”Why should I want to be rich?”
”To live--to buy what you want.”