Then for a moment his son's face glowed out in a hot insurgence of the fire, his son's face looking up to him, tender as well as strong; and at that he found a voice to reach them all, speaking across a gulf, as it were, to his son.
"I come from Caterham," he said.

"He sent me to you, to tell you the terms he offers." He paused.

"They are impossible terms, I know, now that I see you here all together; they are impossible terms, but I brought them to you, because I wanted to see you all--and my son.

Once more ...

I wanted to see my son...." "Tell them the terms," said Cossar.
"This is what Caterham offers.