“Never mind. Hang around a little. Tell me about the happy life. What’s so happy about it?” “Well,” Quatt said reflectively. “It’s having everything you wanted when you were a kid. If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you’re happy. Now when I was fifteen…” And Quatt went on and on describing the symbols, ambitions, and frustrations of his boyhood which he was now satisfying until Baker came out of the operating theater.
