In The Palace Thief, Mr. Hundert affirms that his relationship with St. Benedict’s School was much more than a vocation or a career. Lecturing was his job, and he treasured the school and all the things he believed it represented. He envisioned himself as imparting the beacon of enlightenment, handing down the students a refined hallmark of their culture and instilling educated principles in all the new generations of the country’s academics and leaders. As a tutor, Hundert is truthful and dedicated. He has educated three groups of pupils without any incidents.

Mr. Hundert has devoted his whole line of work as a teacher of conventional civilization and primordial history at the learning institution. He reveals that, among the generations that he has lectured are the boys of nineteen American Senators. At the end of page 155, he further states “I taught a boy, who, if not for the vengeful recriminations of the tabloids, would today have been president of the United States. That school, was my life.”