He didn’t care for Clive [anymore], but he could suffer from him. - E. M. Forster

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!

Ronny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form, and condemned as ‘weakening’ any attempt to understand them.