I do want to live in London, and I don't want to change my way of living and start under different conditions in some other place.

I can't face the prospect of tearing up my life by the roots; I feel certain that I shouldn't bear transplanting.

I can't imagine myself recreating my circle of interests in some foreign town or colonial centre or even in a country town in England.

India I couldn't stand.

London is not merely a home to me, it is a world, and it happens to be just the world that suits me and that I am suited to.