"You wouldn’t have to live in a city. With the kind of salary we are talking about here, Waterhouse—" Comstock pauses for effect, sips, grimaces, and lowers his voice another notch "—you could buy a nice little Ford or a Chevy." He stops to let that sink in. "With a V-8 that would give you power to burn! You could live ten, twenty miles away, and drive in every morning at a mile a minute !"