But even from the seaside he wrote long letters to Mrs.Leivers about the shore and the sea.

And he brought back his beloved sketches of the flat Lincoln coast, anxious for them to see.

Almost they would interest the Leivers more than they interested his mother.

It was not his art Mrs.Morel cared about; it was himself and his achievement.

But Mrs.Leivers and her children were almost his disciples.