She smiled kindly at him.

Lord Arranmore's voice once more broke the short silence.
"The individual was my greatest disappointment," he continued.

"Young and old, all were the same.

I took them to live with me, I sent them abroad, I found them situations in this country, I talked with them, read with them, showed them the simplest means within their reach by means of which they might take into their lives a certain measure of beautiful things.

Failure would only make me more dogged, more eager.
I would spend months sometimes with one man or boy, and at last I would assure myself of success.