Do you think I should sit idly here, if the best measures had not been taken to find your wife ?" "Forgive me.

Yes; I have no doubt you have done what is best.

But if I were astir, I should have the sense of doing something.

I could urge on those people you employ, work with them even." "You would be more likely to hinder than to assist them.

They know their work, and it is a slow drudging business at best, which requires more patience than you possess.