Rewrite these sentences, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same:
1. if the work is finished by lunch, you can go home.
->
2. keeping calm is the secret of passing your driving test.
-> as long

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?