‘One has no right to try — not with the best intentions in the world.’

‘Do you try to force them?’ she asked.

‘Perhaps,’ he said. ‘Why should I want him to be free, if it isn’t his business?’

She paused for a time.

‘We can’t MAKE him happy, anyhow,’ she said. ‘He’d have to be it of himself.’

‘I know,’ he said. ‘But we want other people with us, don’t we?’

‘Why should we?’ she asked.

‘I don’t know,’ he said uneasily. ‘One has a hankering after a sort of further fellowship.’