To any man there may come at times a consciousness that there blows, through all the articulations of his body, the wind of a spirit not wholly his; that his mind rebels; that another girds him and carries him whither he would not.

It came now to Herrick, with the authority of a revelation.

There was no escape possible.

The open door was closed in his recreant face.

He must go back into the world and amongst men without illusion.