And the effect on yourself?' Guthrie said. For a short time, Lymond was silent. Then he said, 'I had some strengths, which have grown. I had some weaknesses, which have gone.' 'That is true,' Adam Blacklock said. Slumped between floor and wall, he had leaned his tired head on the panelling; his face, with its thin scar, was turned without expression to Lymond. 'You have become a machine.' 'No,' said Philippa. 'That is not so.' 'But that so,' said Lymond. 'How could I do my work otherwise?