I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead ā a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything Iād encountered so far ā the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery ā had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.