The narrator looks back on his years in the household of Father Payne, a man of ideas rather than deeds who gathered young men around him in an experiment with life and letters. Little happens; what fills the book is talk, on reading and writing, religion, friendship, ambition, money and marriage, set down as one of his pupils remembered it.
A gently searching book of conversations for readers who enjoy Benson’s essays and the Edwardian art of reflection. Download the free EPUB.