Though his love-affair had ended so disastrously, he had achieved his pet ambition, and had been in the winning boat in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race.

The excitement and months of training had done him good morally and physically, and though he was still depressed and melancholy, and had by no means forgotten Leah, he showed greater manliness and self-control, and Malcolm's influence was again in the ascendant.
Malcolm took him to Queen's Gate and introduced him to his mother and Anna.

He had previously acquainted his mother with the story of his unfortunate infatuation for Leah Jacobi.

To his surprise she was deeply interested, and begged to be allowed to tell Anna.
"Anna cares so much more for unhappy people," she said.

"You will see how kind she will be to the poor fellow." In her way Mrs.Herrick was kind too.