If you're ever to learn truth at your stage of ignorance you'll have to have it." The goad went home.

He did lack application.

And Joan must not suffer from that lack.
But in the end the old man tired him out; and the practice of truth became a boomerang.
Adam Craig smoothly demanded reciprocal privileges.

Once more he told Kenny the truth about himself and drove the tormented Irishman again and again to his notebook.

It had for him a morbid fascination.