'He'll pull round.
Self-suggestion will do it.

It's not a bad case.

He couldn't get hold of the idea at first--he's not very bright; but I found out that he'd got some very useful religious notions, and I work it in on these.' From the housekeeper, a friend of her youth, Helen learned that in the village Mr.Kane's ministrations to Jim Betts were regarded with surprise, yet not without admiration.

He was supposed to be some strange sort of foreign clergyman, not to be placed in any recognisable category.

'He's a very kind gentleman, I'm sure,' said Mrs.Fielding.
Mr.Kane was fond, Helen also observed, of entering into conversation with the servants.