The Chief Witness w/ DirectLink Technology (A Classic Thriller)

"I WONDER," said Sir Christopher Bennion, "how many of us really become what in our youths we hoped to be? Very few, I imagine."
"You could not have a male population entirely of railway guards and airmen," his son Roger remarked.
"I was not referring to nursery fancies," replied the father, "but to a young man's ideas when he begins to take life seriously."