But really I don't see how.

With all the whirl and the crowds and the glorious excitement.

The feeling that one is at the very heart, the center of everything!" "Yes.

If you belong to the machinery, I s'pose it's all right.

But if you've been leanin' over the rail, lookin' on, and get pushed in unexpected, maybe you don't care so much about bein' nigh the center." "Then why stay there?
Why not get out ?" "If you're caught in the wheels, gettin' out's somethin' of a job." "But, as I understand it, Captain Warren--I may be misinformed, for, of course, I haven't been unduly curious concerning your family affairs--as _I_ understand it, you were not obliged to remain among the--among the wheels, as you call them.