"You work like detectives now, it seems to me, following up the smallest threads and links."
"That's it," Freddy said. "We are just a body of intellectual detectives, running to earth the history of Egypt and the story of the ancient world. We're really far more interested in finding connecting links and establishing disputed facts, than in unearthing statues and figures which please the public. Egyptologists have unearthed the private lives of Egypt's kings and queens."
"I suppose your friend Mike only enters into the artistic side of it?"
"Not altogether—he's awfully keen about Egyptian history and mythology, but he hates detail too much to give his mind and time to all the hard grind of the thing—he likes to study the history we unearth."
"I'm afraid I shall be like him. I want to enjoy the results without the dull labour of digging."
"It's a sort of thing that's born in you, I think."
"You love it, Freddy?"
"Rather! I couldn't stick any other work now."
"You're looking awfully well."
"Never felt fitter."