Not only was he reluctant to put it forth without such a test, but he lacked the funds to pay for its publication.

He came to realise in later years, of course, that the music was immature and far from characteristic, though he still had a genuine affection for it.

In a talk which I had with him a year before his collapse, he gave me the impression that he considered it at least as good a piece of work as its predecessors, "Hamlet and Ophelia" and "Lancelot and Elaine," though he made sport, in his characteristic way, of its occasional juvenility and its Wagneristic allegiances.

He intended ultimately to revise and publish the score, and he allowed it to remain on the list of his works.

After his death it was concluded that it would be wise to print the music, for several reasons.