Last week we lingered at Oxford — that season of innocence when friendship, laughter, and beauty seemed sufficient for a lifetime. This week, Evelyn Waugh moves us forward, gently but decisively, into Stage III — Brideshead & First Love. Oxford was a garden of youth. Brideshead is something else entirely. Here, Charles Ryder encounters beauty on a larger scale — not merely aesthetic pleasure, but a place that awakens longing, attachment, and a sense of destiny. Long be