His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.

“So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the firepla…”

“Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is th…”

“Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advoc…”

“It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then…”