"I've got just what I want.

I am carrying out father's plan, and I'm far enough into it to see that he was right." In unbelieving silence Ross looked down at his former equal with condescending sympathy; how well Arthur knew that look! And he remembered that he had once, so short a time before, regarded it as kindly, and the thoughts behind it as generous! "I like my job," he continued.

"It gives me a sense of doing something useful--of getting valuable education.

Already I've had a thousand damn-fool ideas knocked out of my head." "I suppose it _is_ interesting," said Ross, with gracious encouragement.
"The associations must be rather trying." "They _were_ rather trying," replied Arthur with a smile.

"Trying to the other men, until I got my bearings and lost the silliest of the silly ideas put in my head by college and that sort of thing.