His step was so rapid and his hand and arm moved so dexterously, that no conceivable number would have been too many for him.

But, even with five, he showed at once that the right man was in the right place.

Mr.Jobbles was created for the conducting of examinations.
And then the five candidates, who had hitherto been all ears, of a sudden became all eyes, and devoted themselves in a manner which would have been delightful to Sir Gregory, to the papers before them.

Sir Warwick, in the meantime, was seated in his chair, hard at work looking through his millstone.
It is a dreadful task that of answering examination papers--only to be exceeded in dreadfulness by the horrors of Mr.Jobbles' viva voce torments.

A man has before him a string of questions, and he looks painfully down them, from question to question, searching for some allusion to that special knowledge which he has within him.