... But the pain remained -- and a helpless wonder. The thing he
saw was so much more real than the reality of paper, office and
commission. He could not understand what made others blind to it,
and what made their indifference possible. He looked at the paper
before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its
say. He had never known that. And the reality which permitted it
could never become quite real to him.
