I see I have nearly everything of essential importance still to learn.

And that is a pretty large order--almost staggeringly large now that, thanks to you, I begin to realize the vastness of the amount." "The majority of men in your Service never realize it," Charles Verity returned.

"They run in blinkers from first to last .-- Not that I underrate their usefulness.

They are honest, painstaking, thoroughly reliable, according to their lights.

They do excellent journeyman work.