[1][2] A young man upon finishing college announces to his publisher father that he wants to become a priest.

He proposes a yacht trip to his son that will give them the chance to spend a few days together and maybe find a middle ground.

Seeing that his father was responsible for the suicide, the young man feels sick and decides he has no place in such a company.

It was all a ploy by the father to corrupt his son and make him change his mind about the priesthood.

Main themes are middle class guilt, and conflict between the spiritual and the material world.