This morning he had an elation of his own; it touched everything with more vivid reality.

The familiar picture stirred a joy in him in tune with his private happiness; its undernote came to him with a pang as keen.

The sense of kinship surged in his heart; these were his people, this his lot as well as theirs.

For the first time he saw it in detachment.

Till now he had regarded it with the friendly eyes of a participator who looked no further.