"You've certainly picked out a few man-sized jobs for yourself: to make a success of the straight life for yourself--to come out ahead of the police and your old pals--to make Maggie love the Ten Commandments--to put me across--to make Dick into a level-headed citizen.

Any other little item you'd like to take on ?" Larry ignored the irony of the question.

"Some of those things I'm going to do," he said confidently.

"And any I see I'm going to fail in, I'll get warning to the people involved.

But to come back to your promise: are you willing to give your promise now that you know all the facts ?" Hunt pulled for a long moment at his pipe.