perhaps just a thrill over a nude statue.

Why, till you told me this I'd as soon have trusted my daughter--if I had one--with an architect as with a Colonel of Engineers--You know! The kind that believes in the identity of the Ten Lost Tribes with the British and is a True Protestant! Poor Beryl! But how?
what?
when?
why ?" _Norie_: "I think it began at Cambridge--the acquaintance did ...
Later, it developed into a passion.

He had already one wife in Sussex somewhere and four children.

He took a flat for her in Town--a studio--because Berry had given up mathematics and was going in for sculpture; and there, whenever he could get away from Storrington or some such place and from his City office, he used to visit Beryl.

This had been going on for three years.