He is one who has climbed a Sussex apple-tree at seven and been afraid of a ghost in an English lane." "Your process of thought--" began the immovable Chadd, but his speech was interrupted.

His sister, with that masculinity which always in such families concentrates in sisters, flung open the door with a rigid arm and said: "James, Mr Bingham of the British Museum wants to see you again." The philosopher rose with a dazed look, which always indicates in such men the fact that they regard philosophy as a familiar thing, but practical life as a weird and unnerving vision, and walked dubiously out of the room.
"I hope you do not mind my being aware of it, Miss Chadd," said Basil Grant, "but I hear that the British Museum has recognized one of the men who have deserved well of their commonwealth.

It is true, is it not, that Professor Chadd is likely to be made keeper of Asiatic manuscripts ?" The grim face of the spinster betrayed a great deal of pleasure and a great deal of pathos also.

"I believe it's true," she said.

"If it is, it will not only be great glory which women, I assure you, feel a great deal, but great relief, which they feel more; relief from worry from a lot of things.