The details of his work after the first month would have been inexpressibly wearisome to him.

To have gone into the city, and to have remained there every day from eleven till five, would have been all but impossible to him.

He would not have done it.

And then he would have been tormented by the feeling that he was taking the pay and not doing the work.

There is a belief current, not confined to a few, that a man may be a Government Secretary with a generous salary, and have nothing to do.