CHAPTER TEN
I decided I could not in any circumstances go back to the city from which I had started out, that University city still full of my old fellow-students, and of Rex's friends. As for the town where I was born, I was not a bit anxious to go back there, either: defeated, without a job, and hardly able to explain my position, unless with a pack of lies. No thank you!
Like most provincials, I was enamoured of the romantic possibilities of London, its bigness, and the feeling that in this city you could be anything or do anything, according to your capacities. I decided to try to live in London. Which meant getting a job very quickly. Unfortunately, I couldn't approach Rex's friends, who could no doubt have helped. But I didn't feel like knocking at their doors and telling them m
