I only came back the other day and somebody gave me a ticket and so I've looked in for auld lang syne." An unsympathetic hearer would have detected a note of condescension in the last sentence.

Hannah detected it, for the announcement that the young man had returned from the Cape froze all her nascent sympathy.

She was turned to ice again.

Hannah knew him well--the young man from the Cape.

He was a higher and more disagreeable development of the young man in the dress-coat.