Derrick knew very little of his father, but apparently Mrs.Vaughan had done her best to keep up a sort of memory of his childish days at Aldershot, and in these the part that his father played was always pleasant.

So he looked forward to the meeting not a little, while I, from the first, had my doubts as to the felicity it was likely to bring him.
However, it was ordained that before the Major's ship arrived, his son's whole life should change.

Even Lynwood was thrust into the background.
As for me, I was nowhere.

For Derrick, the quiet, the self-contained, had fallen passionately in love with a certain Freda Merrifield..