I have no inclination to imitate in the volume of this novel either Roger Martin du Taru or Galsworthy does not intend to describe everything as it was, and precisely in the order in which it was located in time. Trying to present to the reader a common set of times, I am ready to snatch picture after picture. If the arch is spacious, the reader will pass under it without bowing his head, quite independent, not forced to crawl, as in other notorious works.