How long do you think of staying ?' 'Not much more than a week, I think.' 'By-the-bye, you are coming to have tea with us to-morrow,' Jasper remarked a propos of nothing.

Then he returned to another subject that was in his thoughts.
'It was by a train like that that I first went up to London.

Not really the first time; I mean when I went to live there, seven years ago.
What spirits I was in! A boy of eighteen going to live independently in London; think of it!' 'You went straight from school ?' 'I was for two years at Redmayne College after leaving Wattleborough Grammar School.

Then my father died, and I spent nearly half a year at home.

I was meant to be a teacher, but the prospect of entering a school by no means appealed to me.