There is a drama being played out before my very eyes.

The figures in it move about me continually, yet I alone am blindfolded.

I am trusted to almost an incredible extent.
Great issues are confided to me.

I have been given such a post as a man might work for a lifetime to secure.

Yet where a little confidence would give me zest for my work--would take away this horrible sense of moving always in the darkness--it is withheld from me." Ray smoked on in silence for several moments.
"Well," he said, "I am not sure that you are altogether unreasonable.
But, on the other hand, you must not forget that there is method, and a good deal of it, in the very things of which you complain.