She knew he would not like the army.
He did not.

The discipline was intolerable to him.
"But the doctor," she said with some pride to Paul, "said he was perfectly proportioned--almost exactly; all his measurements were correct.

He IS good-looking, you know." "He's awfully nice-looking.

But he doesn't fetch the girls like William, does he ?" "No; it's a different character.

He's a good deal like his father, irresponsible." To console his mother, Paul did not go much to Willey Farm at this time.
And in the autumn exhibition of students' work in the Castle he had two studies, a landscape in water-colour and a still life in oil, both of which had first-prize awards.