He could not take life seriously where the emotions lent themselves so easily.

And Kendal thought that he ought to take life seriously, because his natural tendency was otherwise.

Kendal was an Englishman with a temperament which multiplied his individuality.

If his father, who was once in the Indian Staff Corps, had lived, Kendal would probably have gone into the Indian Staff Corps too.

And if his mother, who was of clerical stock, had not died about the same time, it is more than likely that she would have persuaded him to the bar.