4 Green distrusts me fiffully. He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything coming out of my department before it is shown to other departments. I know he does not really mean this: he is too busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all of mine, and I will bypass him on most of our assignments rather than take up his time and delay their delivery to people who have an immediate need for them, Most of the work we do in my department is, in the long run, trivial. But Green always grows alarmed when someone from another department graises something that has come from my department. He turns scarlet with rage and embarrassment if he has not seen or heard of it.