THE PLANTAGENET LADY In the course of these years of adolescence, Godfrey Knight had developed into a rather unusual stamp of youth.

In some ways he was clever, for instance at the classics and history which he had always liked; in others and especially where figures were concerned, he was stupid, or as his father called him, idle.

In company he was apt to be shy and dull, unless some subject interested him, when to the astonishment of those present, he would hold forth and show knowledge and powers of reflection beyond his years.

By nature he was intensely proud; the one thing he never forgot was a rebuff, or forgave, was an insult.

Sir John Blake soon found this out, and not liking the lad, whose character was antagonistic to his own in every way, never lost an opportunity of what he called "putting him in his place," perhaps because something warned him that this awkward, handsome boy would become a stumbling-block to his successful feet.
Godfrey and Isobel were both great readers.