Paul's infallible instinct drew him into timid companionship with the last.

He knew little of the things they talked about, golf and cricket prospects, and the then brain-baffling Ibsen, but he listened modestly, hoping to learn.

He reaped the advantage of having played "the sedulous ape" to his patrons of the studios.

His tricks were somewhat exaggerated; his sweep of the hat when ladies passed him at the stage door entrance was lower than custom deems necessary; he was quicker in courteous gesture than the young men from the universities; he bowed more deferentially to an interlocutor than is customary outside Court circles; but they were all the tricks of good breeding.

More than one girl asked if he were of foreign extraction.