Peter was alternately appalled and fascinated by the business and by his father. The size of the business and its known subsidiaries was staggering. Then there were the unknown subsidiaries. In his less buoyant moods, he thought that there was no business on earth in which he was not involved in some way. And the links by which these many pieces were joined and authority vested in one man were bewildering in the extreme. Every day his view of the whole increased under his father’s guidance, and every day his view of his father increased.
The man’s intellect and knowledge and experience were truly formidable, and Peter stood in some awe, very uncertain that he could even begin to replace his father when the time came. But paradoxically, along with the man’s perceptiveness, his psychologica
