whereas they, all of them, only checked him.
He loved his mother best, and he was secretly disappointed to find how ordinary an affair his departure was to her.

He realised, with a perception that was beyond his years, that the infant Barbara was now rapidly occupying the position, as centre of the family, that he had held.

Barbara, everyone declared, was a charming baby--the house revolved, to some extent, round Barbara.

But, then again, this isolation was entirely his own fault.

During the summer holidays he had gone his own way, and had wanted no one but Hamlet as his companion.