I want to make of you something different.

More than anything in the world, for the furtherance of my schemes here, I need a young Englishman of your position and with your connections, to whom I can give my whole confidence, who will act for me with implicit obedience, without hesitation.

Will you accept that post, Francis Norgate ?" "If you think I am capable of it," Norgate replied promptly.
"You are capable of it," Selingman asserted.

"There is only one grim possibility to be risked.

Are you entirely trustworthy?
Would you flinch at the danger moment?
Before this afternoon I hesitated.