Contents
[CHAPTER I--A Hereditary Bequest]
[CHAPTER II--The Choice of a Career]
[CHAPTER III--The Hopes]
[CHAPTER IV--The Complete Shopper]
[CHAPTER V--The Splendid Morning]
[CHAPTER VI--Hilary, Peggy, and the Boarders]
[CHAPTER VII--Diana, Actæon, and Lord Evelyn]
[CHAPTER VIII--Peter Understands]
[CHAPTER IX--The Fat in the Fire]
[CHAPTER X--The Loss of a Profession]
[CHAPTER XI--The Loss of an Idea]
[CHAPTER XII--The Loss of a Goblet and Other Things]
[CHAPTER XIII--The Loss of the Single State]
[CHAPTER XIV--Peter, Rhoda, and Lucy]
[CHAPTER XV--The Loss of a Wife]
[CHAPTER XVI--A Long Way]
[CHAPTER XVII--Mischances in the Rain]
[CHAPTER XVIII--The Breaking-Point]
[CHAPTER XIX--The New Life]
[CHAPTER XX--The Last Loss]
[CHAPTER XXI--On the Shore]
THE LEE SHORE
CHAPTER I
A HEREDITARY BEQUEST
During the first week of Peter Margerison's first term at school, Urquhart suddenly stepped, a radiant figure on the heroic scale, out of the kaleidoscopic maze of bemusing lights and colours that was Peter's vision of his new life.
Peter, seeing Urquhart in authority on the football field, asked, "Who is it?" and was told, "Urquhart, of course," with the implication "Who else could it be?"
"Oh," Peter said, and blushed. Then he was told, "Standing right in Urquhart's way like that! Urquhart doesn't want to be stared at by all the silly little kids in the lower-fourth." But Urquhart was, as a matter of fact, probably used to it.