Accustomed hitherto to a domestic circle, at Kingsmill he found himself isolated, and it was not easy for him to surrender all at once the comforts of home.

For a time he felt as though his ambition were a delinquency which entailed the punishment of loneliness.

Nor did his relations with Sir Job Whitelaw tend to mitigate this feeling.

In his first interview with the Baronet, Godwin showed to little advantage.

A deadly bashfulness forbade him to be natural either in attitude or speech.