For Doctor Worth was a person to whom very wide latitude might be given.

To both the military and the civilians his skill was a necessity.

The attitude he had taken was privately discussed, but no one publicly acted or even commented upon it.

Perhaps he was a little disappointed at this.

He had come to a point when a frank avowal of his opinions would be a genuine satisfaction; when, in fact, his long-repressed national feeling was imperious.
On the third morning, as he crossed the Plaza, some one called him.