“Of course men want to win at games and at sports,” Susanna replied. “There is no racehorse owner who does not wish to win the Derby or a game shot who does not wish to bring down more pheasants than anyone else.”
She was thinking of her father as she spoke and the enormous bags of birds that were killed at every shoot, starting with Sandringham where the King’s personal record two years ago had been seven thousand, two hundred and fifty-six birds in four days.
“So you allow that a man should win in sport,” Mr. Dunblane said, almost as if he was provoking her into an argument, “and what about his other achievements in life, a desire for a title, which is very prevalent in England and the fanatical struggle for money, which I expect you know persists in America? Surely all ambition is adm
