"IF YOU LIKE, you'll be able to live upon the interest – many a man who is thought well off lives on less. Or, if you prefer to aim at the big things – and you're that kind of man – you'll have enough capital in hand to enable you to bring off successfully some of those greater villainies which make men millionaires."
The listener laughed; the situation appealed to his peculiar sense of humour. The man in the bed looked at him.
"I like to hear you laugh, lying here. If I were out of this, and we were alone together, and had had a little difference of opinion, I shouldn't like it quite so much. The devil's strongest in you when you laugh."