PAUL had been four years on the stage.

Save as a memory they had as little influence on the colour of his after-life as his years at Bludston or his years in the studios.

He was the man born to be king.
The attainment of his kingdom alone mattered.

The intermediary phases were of no account.

It had been a period of struggle, hardship and, as far as the stage itself was concerned, disillusion.