You felt as if you were being taken out for a delightful country drive by a charming lady in a pony carriage.

But in his domestic life that same Carleon Anthony showed traces of the primitive cave-dweller's temperament.

He was a massive, implacable man with a handsome face, arbitrary and exacting with his dependants, but marvellously suave in his manner to admiring strangers.

These contrasted displays must have been particularly exasperating to his long-suffering family.

After his second wife's death his boy, whom he persisted by a mere whim in educating at home, ran away in conventional style and, as if disgusted with the amenities of civilization, threw himself, figuratively speaking, into the sea.