such an incident wouldn't occur; it seemed to him just then that he
shouldn't be able to bear it. His late adviser's words were still in his
ears--"You're very strong, wonderfully strong." Was he really? Certainly
he would have to be, and it might a little serve for revenge. _Is_ he?
the reader may ask in turn, if his interest has followed the perplexed
young man so far. The best answer to that perhaps is that he's doing his
best, but that it's too soon to say. When the new book came out in the
autumn Mr. and Mrs. St. George found it really magnificent. The former
still has published nothing but Paul doesn't even yet feel safe. I may
say for him, however, that if this event were to occur he would really be
the very first to appreciate it: which is perhaps a proof that the Master
was essentially right and that Nature had dedicated him to intellectual,
not to personal passion.