Three generations

LONDON AFTER TWENTY YEARS 361
in Oxford was done, and both change and rest were
desirable. When Mr. Lees Smith was appointed
Professor of Economics in what was then the University
College of Bristol, we were ready to form a joint
household of old and fast friends. We were welcomed
hospitably by the University circle, and stayed two
years in a house at Clifton, to which the kind friendli-
ness of our next-door neighbours gave at once a touch
of home.
But soon after Mr. Lees Smith's return from India,
where he went, at the request of the Governor of Bom-
bay, to deliver a course of lectures at the native college,
it was found that London would be more advisable
than Clifton as a place of permanent residence.
Accordingly, to London, which I had quitted more
than twenty years before, I returned in the company
of my friends.