Not that the young man was anything of a dandy, but he had always looked right for every occasion.

And Jean thought that probably all the young men at Oxford looked like that--poor David! David himself never grumbled.

He meant to make money by his pen in spare moments, and his mind was too full of plans to worry much about his shabby clothes.
He sometimes worried about his sister, and thought it hard that she should have the cares of a household on her shoulders at an age when other girls were having the time of their lives, but he solaced himself with the thought that some day he would make it up to Jean, that some day she should have everything that now she was missing, full measure pressed down and running over.

It never occurred to the boy that Jean's youth would pass, and whatever he might be able to give her later, he could never give her that back.
Pamela returned to Hillview in the middle of the month, just before David left.
Bella Bathgate owned that she was glad to have her back.

That indomitable spinster had actually missed her lodger.