The new- comer received them graciously, and said what a pleasure it was to be coming home after so long an absence of his family from their old seat.
Adam was pleased at the warmth of the reception; but he could not avoid a feeling of repugnance at the man's face.

He was trying hard to overcome this when a diversion was caused by the arrival of Lady Arabella.

The diversion was welcome to all; the two Saltons and Sir Nathaniel were shocked at Caswall's face--so hard, so ruthless, so selfish, so dominant.
"God help any," was the common thought, "who is under the domination of such a man!" Presently his African servant approached him, and at once their thoughts changed to a larger toleration.

Caswall looked indeed a savage--but a cultured savage.

In him were traces of the softening civilisation of ages--of some of the higher instincts and education of man, no matter how rudimentary these might be.