Photograph by The Dover Street Studios, London, W. To face p. [199]
Harry as Widgery Blake
“Palace of Puck”
Perhaps the best summing-up of Harry that can be given is to quote Henley’s lines on Robert Louis Stevenson:
“A streak of Ariel, a hint of Puck,
Of Hamlet most of all, and something of
The Shorter Catechist.”
There, then, is the picture I have tried to make for you: Harry elated over the success of a play; Harry cast down over some unkind cut, grave for a moment, with his gravity turned to smiles at some happy thought which suddenly struck him; our hopes and fears; our good and bad times together; and over all, drowning all other sounds, comes the noise of Harry’s laughter and that of three happy children laughing with him.
CHAPTER XIV
HARRY, THE PLAYWRIGHT
“He used to write of life as it ought to be.”
—The Law Divine.