But, at this moment of crisis, the man in him stood up, confident and rebellious.

He knew himself sound, intellectually and morally.

There was a career before him, to which a cool and reasonable ambition looked forward without any paralysing doubts.

In this growing Canada, measuring himself against the other men of the moment, he calmly foresaw his own growing place.

As to money, he would make it; he was in process of making it, honourably and sufficiently.
He was well aware indeed that in the case of many women sprung from the English governing class, the ties that bind them to their own world, its traditions, and its outlook, are so strong that to try and break them would be merely to invite disaster.