I’m afraid he cannot have been happy, although he never showed as much in his dealings with me. I myself, at nineteen, was young and foolish and full of my own doings. It honestly never once occurred to me that we had come down in the world. It may seem astonishing - even incredible - to a reader that it should not have exercised my mind that the family fortunes had failed and that my father, quite contrary to anything that ‘Dr Jarge’ could have foreseen or imagined when he left Martock for Newbury with his bride in 1910, was ending his life in failure and straitened circumstances, with the
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