Since he was not permitted to swim at night he read all night long.  He was zipping through the Encyclopedia Britannica and was sampling Jubal's medicine and law libraries as dessert.  His brother Jubal had seen him leafing rapidly through one of the books, had stopped him and questioned him about what he had read.  Smith had answered carefully, as it reminded him of the tests the Old Ones had occasionally given him.  His brother had seemed a bit upset at his answers and Smith had found it necessary to go into an hour's contemplation on that account, for he had been quite sure that he had answered with the words written in the book even though he did not grok them all.