"A promising career cut short and a life ruined by a moment's failure of nerve.

The price paid for it was a heavy one.

Still, I found the matter difficult to understand, because, so far as I could tell, there was nothing in Blake's character that made such a failure possible.

Then it's known that personal courage was always a characteristic of your family." "His mother was my sister.

You have seen her portrait." Greythorpe made a sign of assent.