There was no sacrifice great or small that he would not willingly have offered at Monck's behest.
And Monck knew it, realized the lad's devotion as pure gold, and valued it accordingly.

But, that fact notwithstanding, his faith in Tommy's discretion did not move him to bestow his unreserved confidence upon him.

Probably to no man in the world could he have opened his secret soul.

He was not of an expansive nature.

But Tommy occupied an inner place in his regard, and there were some things that he veiled from all beside which he no longer attempted to hide from this faithful follower of his.