7/29 "I think I ought to have left you where you were. I am not at all sure that you would not have been happier. You are a very nice boy, Mr.Arnold Chetwode, much too good for that stuffy little office in Tooley Street, but I do not know whether it is really for your good if one is inclined to try and help you to escape. If you saw another man holding a position you wanted yourself, would you throw him out, if you could, by sheer force, or would you think of your laws and your morals ?" "It depends a little upon how much I wanted it," he confessed. "You should read the reign of Queen Elizabeth if you would know what Englishmen should be like. |