And you haven't changed a bit since you were a child remains unsaid. But really, he hadn't all that much. The idea of working for him...

It had better all be worth it in the end.

"Oh, I'm sure that I know more than you think."

Ahab had... given him a general enough idea. And while he couldn't say that anything Eli had just told him gave him that much more of a picture, it did draw a couple of things into focus.