Chapter 36

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌⁠Herbert and I went on from bad to worse, in the way of increasing our debts, looking into our affairs, leaving Margins, and the like exemplary transactions; and Time went on, whether or no, as he has a way of doing; and I came of age,—in fulfilment of Herbert’s prediction, that I should do so before I knew where I was.

Herbert himself had come of age eight months before me. As he had nothing else t