He had his flirtations also; being a man of susceptibility who was popular with women, how could they be avoided?
For above all things Godfrey was a man, not a hermit or a saint or an aesthete, but just a man with more gifts of a sort than have some others.

He lived the life of the rest, he hunted, he shot tigers, doing those things that the Anglo-Indian officer does, but all the same he studied.

Whether it were of his trade of soldiering, or of the natives, or of Eastern thought and law, he was always learning something, till at last he knew a great deal, often he wondered to what end.
And yet, with all his friends and acquaintances, in a way he remained a very lonely man, as those who are a little out of the ordinary often do.

In the common groove we rub against the other marbles running down it, but once we leap over its edge, then where are we?
We cannot wander off into space because of the attraction of the earth that is so near to us, and yet we are alone in the air until with a bump we meet our native ground.

Therefore for the most of us the groove is much better.
And yet some who leave it have been carried elsewhere, if only for a little while, like St.Paul into the third heaven..