Alfred stayed until the evening train, and when he left he stooped down and kissed Philip's cheek.

"It's a custom we learned when in the German universities together that summer after college, you know," he explained with the slightest possible blush, when Mrs.Strong came in and caught him in the act.

It seemed to her, however, like an affecting thing that two big, grown-up men like her husband and his old chum showed such tender affection for each other.

The love of men for men in the strong friendship of school and college life is one of the marks of human divinity..