She, too, like the generations before her, had launched her venture into the deep.

Her boy was putting out from her into the ocean; henceforth she could but watch him from the shore.

Brought into contact with this imposing University organization, with all its suggestions of virile energies and functions, the mother suddenly felt herself insignificant and forsaken.

He had been her all, her own, and now on this training-ground of English youth, it seemed to her that the great human society had claimed him from her..