You might almost go the world over before you'd find a couple like
that--anywhere but in England."
* * * * *
They drove on and on, and then all at once, Radmore, glancing down to his
left, saw that Timmy had fallen asleep. Now Timmy, asleep, looked like an
angelic cherub, and so very different from his usual alert, inquisitive,
little awake self. And there welled up in Radmore's heart the strangest
feeling of tenderness--not only for Timmy but for the whole of the
Tosswill family--not only for the Tosswill family, but for the whole of
this sturdy, quiet, apparently unemotional world of England to which he
had come back.
The human mind and brain work in mysterious ways. Radmore will never
know, to the day of his death, the effect that this curious night drive
had on the whole of his future life. He was not a man to quote poetry,
even to himself, but to-night there came into his mind some words he had
heard muttered by a corporal in Gallipoli:
"What do they know of England
Who only England know?"
When he had left his homeland, now nearly ten years ago, he had been in a
bitter mood. It had seemed to him that his own country was rejecting him
with scorn.
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