Now, all these things require much thought, and we want to apply the knowledge usefully, and we should therefore be exact.

Would it not be well to resume the subject later in the day ?" "I quite agree, sir.

I am in a whirl already; and want to attend carefully to what you say; so that I may try to digest it." Both men seemed fresher and better for the "easy," and when they met in the afternoon each of them had something to contribute to the general stock of information.

Adam, who was by nature of a more militant disposition than his elderly friend, was glad to see that the conference at once assumed a practical trend.

Sir Nathaniel recognised this, and, like an old diplomatist, turned it to present use.
"Tell me now, Adam, what is the outcome, in your own mind, of our conversation ?" "That the whole difficulty already assumes practical shape; but with added dangers, that at first I did not imagine." "What is the practical shape, and what are the added dangers?
I am not disputing, but only trying to clear my own ideas by the consideration of yours--" So Adam went on: "In the past, in the early days of the world, there were monsters who were so vast that they could exist for thousands of years.