"It looks like unnecessary complication, to me, and avoidable danger." "It is neither," answered the man at the wheel.

"What would you have done?
What better plan could you have proposed ?" "You could have built your own flyer, couldn't you?
Since money's no object to you, and you don't even know, accurately, how much you've got--nobody can keep track of figures like those--why risk legal interference and international complications at the start, by--" "To build the kind of flyer we need would have taken six or seven months.

Not all my money could have produced it, sooner.

And absolute ennui can't wait half a year.

I'd have gone wholly stale, and so would you, and all of them.