I did not see Lady Mary Justin for nearly seven months after my return to England. Of course I had known that a meeting was , and I had taken that very carefully into consideration before I to leave South Africa. But many things had happened to me during those crowded years, so that it seemed possible that that former magic would no longer sway and me. Not only had new imaginative interests taken hold of me but—I had parted from . I was a man. I had been through a great war, seen death abundantly, seen hardship and passion, and known hunger and shame and desire. A hundred rev............