How we cite our quotes: (Part.Paragraph)
Quote #7
There were plenty of days coming when he could fish the swamp. (II.64)
Whoa, Nelly. Things don’t have to fix themselves all at once. Nick could be really ambitious and try to do something drastically against everything he’s been doing so far in terms of keeping things under control, but we have an inkling that it would be a recipe for disaster. Maybe there was a time when Nick would dive head-first into the swamp with no problem, but he is a different person now, and he can’t just go back to things being all hunky-dory. If that change does occur, it’s going to take time. That seems to be the gist of this passage.