But at the age of twenty-eight he took a holiday.

He went down for a month into Sussex, and there the ordered scheme of his life was threatened.

It stood the attack; and again it is possible to plead in its favour with a good show of argument.

But the attack, nevertheless, brings into light another point of view.
Prudence, for instance, the disputant might urge, is all very well in the ordinary run of life, but when the great moments come conduct wants another inspiration.

Such an one would consider that holiday with a thought to spare for Stella Derrick, who during its passage saw much of Henry Thresk.