He had heard of her ... as settling, to the same rather dismal end, somewhere in England at oner of those intensely English places, St Leonards, Cheltenham, Bognor, Dawlish - which, awfully, was it?

Even New York ... might have put forth to this lone exile a plea that wouldn't be in the chords of Bognor .... He saw himself scrimping with more zest in New York than under the inspiration of Bognor.