Chapter 60

Now his conversation with Lisbeth left a pleasant afterglow in which the reasons which brought him back to America seemed sound at last. He had spent his life so far in looking for stir and excitement, and in being where things were happening. He had grown steadily more aware of the complexity of any event and the difficulty of evaluating the influences which made it up. Anything was possible and nothing could ever be proved. The readjustment of his faculties to each new event, to penetrate it as far as possible in…