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But they behaved
shockingly the very next week--quite disgracefully! They are hopeless,
those friends of yours, though one cannot help liking them somehow. I
got through good deal of other work of that kind," he added.
"I see you are a man of action. Sometimes I wish I were. A little money
has made me lazy, I'm afraid. But I do some thinking, and a fair lot of
reading. I travel, I observe, I compare. Among other things I observe
that our English system of education is all wrong. We ought to return
to that old Camp-and-Court ideal."
"All wrong?" queried the bishop.
"Take a case like that young fellow Denis. What is a child of his age
doing at a University? No. If I had a son--but I am boring you."
"I have not been bored since I was twenty."
"I wish I could say the same of myself. I grow more intolerant of fools
as the years roll on. If I had a son, I was saying, I would take him
from school at the age of fourteen, not a moment later, and put him for
two years in a commercial house.


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