"I never permit either, where I am in authority?"
"Your authority can't reach far. You've got to take the world as you find it."
"I dispute that. You've got to take the world and make it better."
"What do you do where your authority is not sufficient?"
"I go away."
"Look here," said Mr. Copley. "Do you call yourself in authority here?"
"Those are the only terms on which I could stay," said Mr. Shubrick, smiling.
"Well, see," said the other,—"I wish you would stay. You've done me more good than all the doctor and everybody else before you."
"I come after them all, remember."
"I wish you had come before them. Women don't know anything. There's my wife,—she would have let the room get to be like a Jew's old clothes shop, and never be aware of it. I didn't know what was choking me so, and now I know it was the confusion. You belong to the navy?"