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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: 'Why, immaturity, of course--not enough discipline.'
'He's a student. Not that it amounts to a defect, you know'--she
was as jealous already as if she possessed the things--'only a sign
to read by. I should be grateful for more signs. Why should a
student come to Simla?'
'To teach, perhaps,' I suggested. Naturally one sought only among
reasons of utility.
'It's the Kensington person who teaches. When they have worked in
the ateliers and learned as much as this they never do. They paint
fans and menu cards, and starve, but they don't teach.'
Sir William Lamb, Member of Council for the Department of Finance,
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