Then came the Baronet's death.

Godwin received an assurance that this event would be no check upon his career, but he neither saw nor heard directly from Lady Whitelaw.
Not a house in Kingsmill opened hospitable doors to the lonely student; nor was anyone to blame for this.

With no family had he friendly acquaintance.

When, towards the end of his second year, he grew sufficiently intimate with Buckland Warricombe to walk out with him to Thornhaw, it could be nothing more than a scarcely welcome exception to the rule of solitude.

Impossible for him to cultivate the friendship of such people as the Warricombes, with their large and joyous scheme of life.