AMiddlesex Quiet - Author Is Told He Is An Alien - An Altercation At An Auction Bridge Party - An Unpleasant Nursemaid - The Factory - Author Is Expected To Carry On Family Business - Author's Preference For Poetry - Early Attempts At Writing It - Disappointment Of Father - Highgate Junior School - Suspected Of Being A German Spy - The American Master, Mr Eliot, And The Enigma Of His Opinion Of Author's Poems - Cornwall In Childhood - Private School At Oxford - River Expedition.
BMarlborough - Sense Of Impending Doom - Rules - Immunity During Chapel Services - Upper School - Its Ranks - Evening Prep - 'Big Fire' - Cornwall In Adolescence - The Author's Mother - A Row At Breakfast - Oxford - The George Restaurant, Oxford - Chatter Of Its Customers - Sunday Morning - High Mass At Pusey House - Dinner In Wadham With Maurice Bowra - Irregular Ode To Oxford - The Leisured Set In Canterbury Quad - Edward James - Author Fails In Holy Scripture - Becomes A Private Schoolmaster.
