The Breakout

Tom Sponson, at 53, was a successful man. He had worked up a first-class business, married a chaining wife, built himself a good house in the London suburbs. His son, Bob, 19, & daughter, April, 16, were doing well. All the same Tom felt that none of them needed him, apart from the money he gave for their support. One day he decided he just could not go on, so instead of going to his office, he went to Westford, a seaside place where he had spent a summer holiday before his marriage. He enjoys a life of plesant idleness, meaning to write to his wife, but never getting around to it. She…