THE CASE OF THE LONGER VIEWOn the day that the entrancing Beatrix Lea married her famous leading man, Mr Albert Campion took Mr Lance Feering to re-visit the happy scenes of Mr Feering’s youth.
The expedition was purely remedial. Throughout their long luncheon Lance had remained mildly depressed. After all, as he said, a broken heart takes at least twenty-four hours in which to mend without a seam and, while he was perfectly prepared to believe that life with a young woman of Miss Lea’s uncontrolled and vituperant tongue might drive a man to suicide, he yet needed a day or two to get used to his merciful deliverance.
Campion, who had known Lance long before he had become one of the leading designers of stage décor in Europe, was ready to agree, but it occurred to him that a little gentle
