"Then you get up—"
"At half-past four."
"And is it light?"
"Oh, just now, broad daylight."
"To get up at half-past four is admirable; we often finish our day just when yours is beginning. And are you fond of your profession?"
"Very. It is an excellent thing to have one's life plain before one, with exact and definite duties."
"And yet," said Mrs. Scott, "not to be one's own master—to be always obliged to obey."
"That is perhaps what suits me best; there is nothing easier than to obey, and then to learn to obey is the only way of learning to command."
"Ah! since you say so, it must be true."
"Yes, no doubt," added the Cure; "but he does not tell you that he is the most distinguished officer in his regiment, that—"