But he was anxious to discover how far Garratt Skinner's cynicism would carry him.
"Will you define the work ?" he asked.
"If you wish it," replied Garratt Skinner, falling back in his hammock.
"I should have thought it unnecessary myself.

The work is the reclaiming of Wallie Hine from the very undesirable company in which he has mixed.
Do you understand ?" "Quite," said Chayne.

He understood very well.

He had been told first the real design--to pluck Walter Hine--and then the excuse which was to cloak it.

He understood, too, the reason why this information had been given to him with so cynical a frankness.