But I don't see what you can do.

You literary chaps get into the way of thinking that any fool can make a man of business, and that it's only a matter of condescending to turn your hands to desk work and the ways clear before you.

It's a mistake, and you're not the first that'll find it out." "This much I know," replied Waymark, with decision.

"Set me to anything that can be learnt, and I'll be perfect in it in a quarter the time it would take the average man." "You want your evenings free ?" asked the other, after a short reflection.

"What will you do with them ?" "I shall give them to literary work." "I thought as much.