But it was finally made, and the signature at the foot was: Julian Casti.
He went out at once to the post.
Two days later he received a reply, somewhat longer than his own epistle.

The writer was clearly keeping himself in a tentative attitude.

Still, he wrote something about his own position and his needs.

He was a teacher in a school in South London, living in lodgings, with his evenings mostly unoccupied.

His habits, he declared, were Bohemian.