When he had received word that Dr. X had won the race to recover the lost 
copy of the Primer, the thing had turned from bad to farcical. He had cut a day 
at work and gone for a long hike in the Royal Ecological Conservatory. By the 
time
he had returned home, sunburned and pleasantly exhausted, he had been in a much 
better mood. That Dr. X had the Primer actually improved his situation.