Plain as a pikestaff.

They're going to try and stop it, but they're too late.

It's their way to be too late.
You go on and start as much of it as you can.

Thank God He has a use for you!" "But the conflict!" said Bensington, "the stress! I don't know if you have imagined--" "You ought to have been some sort of little vegetable, Bensington," said Cossar--"that's what you ought to have been.

Something growing over a rockery.