Christopher And His Kind
“It was to be made memorable by some old friends and by some new ones. His first few days there were spent chiefly with Jean Ross—who had now left Germany for good—or with Hector Wintle, his friend since their schooldays at Repton and, for a short while, his fellow medical student. (Hector is called Philip Lindsay in All the Conspirators and Philip Linsley in Lions and Shadows; the slight alteration was made because some libel-conscious lawyer feared that the repetition of the original surname m...ight annoy the novelist Philip Lindsay. As far as I know, Mr. Lindsay neither read Christopher nor cared what he wrote.) Christopher had grown accustomed to thinking of Hector as one of his least fortunate friends. For years, he had had to pore over textbooks, squeeze through examinations, and toil at St. Thomas’s Hospital amidst the squalor of moaning, messy patients. His heart had been weak, ever since an early attack of rheumatic fever, and he had been told that the twinges he felt in his fingers were symptoms of progressive rheumatoid arthritis which would probably cripple him.MoreLess
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