![]() ![]() Tom rolled a piece of paper into his typewriter and began to write a brief statement describing the origins of the mental health committee. ![]() The stereotyped notion of the earnest young man arriving early and leaving late, and the complacent boss dropping in for a few hours in the middle of the day to see how things were going was completely reversed. It was embarrassing to have to compete with Hopkins’ hours – it was like taking a Sunday afternoon walk with a long-distance runner. Hopkins rarely left his office before seven o’clock, and Tom had sensed he was annoyed to find that Tom usually left earlier. The big sweep hand on his wrist watch seemed to crawl with maddening slowness. An hour and a half until lunch, and then another five and a half hours before he could reasonably catch the train to South Bay. Suddenly he longed for the day to be over – he was ashamed to find that for no particular reason he felt exhausted, and he wanted to go home and relax. Work in the office on Saturdays and do your background reading on Sundays – hundreds do it. ![]()
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