A delicate boy at an English public school forms an attachment to an older pupil that is the whole of his emotional life. Sturgis kept an open house at Windsor where Henry James and Edith Wharton were regulars and did needlework while his guests talked; this quiet novel about a schoolboy's love was published in 1891 and says, without ever saying, what could not then be said.

A delicate boy at an English public school forms an attachment to an older pupil that is the whole of his emotional life. Sturgis kept an open house at Windsor where Henry James and Edith Wharton were regulars and did needlework while his guests talked; this quiet novel about a schoolboy's love was published in 1891 and says, without ever saying, what could not then be said.