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It would not be good for its efficiency to know too much. Being a dispassionate organism, it can never be perfectly informed. A department does not know so much as some of its servants. Likewise no department appears perfectly wise to the intimacy of its workers.

By a benevolent provision of Nature no man is a hero to his valet, or else the heroes would have to brush their own clothes. It depends on the loyal devotion of its servants, and the devoted loyalty of trusted servants is associated with a certain amount of affectionate contempt, which keeps it sweet, as it were. A department is to those it employs a complex personality with ideas and even fads of its own.

But he was not certain of the view his department would take. He no longer considered it eminently desirable all round to establish publicly the identity of the man who had blown himself up that morning with such horrible completeness.