Arthur Potts.
PS. ‑ I understand you are thinking of taking up educational work. It seems to me that the great problem of education is to train the moral perceptions, not merely to discipline the appetites. I cannot help thinking that it is in greater fastidiousness rather than in greater self‑control that the future progress of the race lies. I shall be interested to hear what your experience has been over the matter. The chaplain does not agree with me in this. He says geat sensibility usually leads to enervation of will. Let me know what you think.
'What do you think about that? asked Paul, handing Mr Prendergast the letter.
'Well, he said after studying it carefully, 'I think your friend is wrong about sensibility. It doesn't do to rely on one's own feelings, does it, not in anything?
'No, I mean about the money.
'Good gracious, Pennyfeather! I hope you are in no doubt about that. Accept it at once, of course.
'It's a temptation.
'My dear boy, it would be a sin to refuse. Twenty pounds! Why, it takes me half a term to earn that.
The bell rang for tea. In the dining‑hall Paul gave the letter to Grimes.
'Shall I take the twenty pounds? he asked.