"A very cynical forecast," Agnes distinguished.
"Will he win his bet?"
"Oh, a man of character can make anything of his life," she answered with a glance of fleeting interest and affection which he did not see.
Eric recalled the extraordinarily young faces at the last dinner of the Phoenix. Their outlook was frivolous and their talk trivial. He was already feeling older in ten days.
"Do you get more than one man of character in twenty?" he asked.
CHAPTER TWO THE COMING OF LILITH
"What private man in England is worse off than the constitutional monarch?... I don't believe he may even eat or drink what he likes best: a taste for tripe and onions on his part would provoke a remonstrance from the Privy Council."
Bernard Shaw: "An Unsocial Socialist."