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THE visit began on the usual lines of such visits, the home team, so to speak Howard and Jack having to fit a round of festivities into a life which under normal circumstances was already, if anything, too full, with the result that, at all events, Howard's geniality was tense, and tended to be forced. Only in youth can one abandon oneself to high spirits; as one grows older one desires more to contemplate one's own mirth, and assure oneself that it is genuine.
Jack met them at the station, and they had tea in his rooms, Howard refusing firmly to come.