The boy had fair hair which curled a little, and his grandfather's deepset iron-grey eyes.

He was well-built and very upright, and always pleased Jolyon's aesthetic sense, so that he was a tiny bit afraid of him, as artists ever are of those of their own sex whom they admire physically.

On that occasion, however, he actually did screw up his courage to give his son advice, and this was it: "Look here, old man, you're bound to get into debt; mind you come to me at once.

Of course, I'll always pay them.

But you might remember that one respects oneself more afterwards if one pays one's own way.