"He's quite right to do nothing in a hurry -- to take advice and compare ideas and points of view -- to collect and classify his material in advance," Halidon argued, in answer to a taunt of mine about Paul's perpetually reiterated plea that he was still waiting for So-and-so's report; "but now that the plan's mature -- and such a plan! You'll grant it's magnificent? -- I should think he'd burn to see it carried out, instead of pottering over it till his enthusiasm cools and the whole business turns stale on his hands."