He was with Outram, wasn't he?
You have his look, though there's a puzzling difference.

I think those men were bluffer and blunter than you are.

You're gentler and more sensitive; in a way, finer drawn." "My sensitiveness has not been a blessing," said Challoner soberly.
"But it makes you lovable," Blanche declared.

"There must have been a certain ruthlessness about those old Challoners which you couldn't show.

After all, their pictures suggest that their courage was of the unimaginative, physical kind." A shadow crept into Challoner's face, but he banished it.
"I am happy in having a wife who won't see my faults." Then he added humorously: "After all, however, that's not good for one." Blanche gave him a tender smile; but he did not see it, for he was gazing at a man who came down the steps from the neighboring cable railway.