“ Only for a time I could not believe that all these vivid moments had been no more than the substance of a dream.
“ In truth, I could not believe it a dream for all the sobering reality of things about me. I bathed and dressed as it were by habit, and as I shaved I argued why I of all men should leave the woman I loved to go back to fantastic politics in the hard and strenuous north. Even if Evesham did force the world back to war, what was that to me? I was a man with the heart of a man, and why should I feel the responsibility of a deity for the way the world might go?
“ You know that is not quite the way I think about affairs, about my real affairs. I am a solicitor, you know, with a point of view.
“ The vision was so real, you must understand, so utterly unlike a dream that I k
