I make a rule never to interfere with anybody's reading." Four years passed.

I went during that time once to Tredennis--in the summer, when I took my scanty holiday; for I was in a Government office where only six weeks were allowed.

Arthur was generally away in the summer.

He took Edward Bruce to several friends' houses; to his own home in Hampshire, now for a long time in the hands of strangers.

He wanted to make him a real Englishman.