AVICE
CONTENTS
| Part I | A Question Mark in Suburbia | [11] | |
| Part II | The Purple Patch | [61] | |
| Part III | Paris | [115] | |
| Part IV | The Pen and the Boards | [173] | |
| Part V | Eve | [199] | |
| Part VI | “He Travels Fastest— | [241] | |
| Part VII | —Who Travels Alone” | [289] | |
| Part VIII | The Leap | [321] | |
PART I
A QUESTION MARK IN SUBURBIA
I
Wynne Rendall was a seven months’ child; the fact is significant of a personality seeking premature prominence upon this planet. He spent the first weeks of his infancy wrapped in cotton wool and placed in a basket as near the fire as safety allowed. He scaled precisely two pounds fifteen ounces, and the doctor, who manipulated the weights and was interested in mathematics, placed two pounds fifteen ounces over seven months and shook his head forebodingly at the result.
“If he lives he will be a sickly child, nurse.”
This opinion the nurse heartily endorsed, and added, in tribute to the kindliness of her disposition:
“Poor little thing!”