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A night fragment precedes a description of men who go around the world solving problems for the speaker's group.

The writer revises the demonstrative introducing the men. The short passage does not identify their work or establish whether their intervention is welcome.

Under the typed line 'INTO the night crept', a short handwritten passage names 'These impedient men / that go around the / world solving our / problems for us.'

The handwritten sentence is dry and ironic: help from 'impedient men' is presented as an intrusion rather than a relief. The typed phrase reads like a title or a line kept for later, and the handwritten revision of This to These sharpens the grouping of the men.