Well, to his way of thinking, there's no reason to delay once the right course of action is obvious. If someone else needs a little more time to make up their minds, well, that's their problem. And it's dumb.

Thanks so much. We'd add things to each other's scenes from time to time and build on things each other had done. Overall, Bazy wrote this one and I wrote the one in Chapter 10.

John isn't even doing a good job of fooling himself, but he feels he ought to try.