"I... won't say that I couldn't, but I wouldn't want to depend on it. I wouldn't make it a way of life. And if I had to sweet-talk my way through the wormhole nexus, I'd have somewhere to go - any Barrayaran embassy, the Dendarii Mercenaries if I could find them. Mark is clearly not choosing to deal with Barrayar, and he hasn't gone near the Dendarii either. He's just - adrift. Doing nothing in particular with his time except read, steal, and evade ImpSec with near-supernatural skill. No, I think he's kept the money. Maybe he just hasn't decided what to do with it."