Many men regard Cambridge as a time for play. Not so I.'"
"But I hope that if Hector comes home this Christmas he'll attend
the Chapel services. The influence your father might have on such a
boy as Hector, Mr. Warlock, a boy, sensitive and thoughtful . . . I
was saying, Miss Pyncheon, that Hector--"
Miss Pyncheon was the soul of good-nature--but she was much more
than that. She was by far the most sensible, genial, and worldly of
the Inside Saints; it was, in fact, astonishing that she should be
an Inside Saint at all.
Of them all she impressed Martin the most, because there was nothing
of the crank about her. She went to theatres, to the seaside in the
summer, took in The Queen, and was a subscriber to Boots'
Circulating Library. She dressed quietly and in excellent taste--in
grey or black and white. She had jolly brown eyes and a dimple in
the middle of her chin. She was ready to discuss any question with
any one, was marvellously broad-minded and tolerant, and although
she was both poor and generous, always succeeded in making her
little flat in Soho Square pretty and attractive.
Her chief fault, perhaps, was that she cared for no one especially--
she had neither lovers nor parents nor sisters nor brothers, and to
all her friends she behaved with the same kind geniality, welcoming
one as another.
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