he leaves behind him two adolescent children, endymion and myra, who are determined to redeem their father's legacy. endymion has received a clerkship in somerset house, a government office, and takes lodgings at the home of the rodneys, former protegees of his parents; at somerset house he becomes acquainted with trenchard, seymour hicks, and the aspiring but pretentious novelist st. barbe; trenchard lays the foundations for his future career by introducing him to the debating club of the politically-minded bertie tremaine.