Had he not always contemplated such revelation in the end?
Yes, when he found his class fit for it.

But he was growing impatient with this slow progress--if indeed it could be called progress at all.

He would strike a more significant note.
Walter was in danger, as you very well understand.

There is no need at this time of day to remind ourselves of teachers who have fallen into the fatal springe of apostolicism.

Men would so fain be prophets, when once they have a fellow mortal by the ear.