Sir Stephen was surprised, though he was intimately familiar with the zeal for reform that lurked, unsuspected, within Zacharias. He had done his best to curb these instincts, and when the young Zacharias had protested, “Why, sir, you are a reformer yourself!” he had replied placidly, “But you have not my advantages, you know. Besides, I know my limits, my dear fellow—I know my limits!”
