That relationship with his father bad been, until this term, the only emotion in his life--and now?
And now! It was incredible this change that had come to him.

First there was Margaret and then, after her, Mrs.Craven, Rupert, Lawrence, Cardillac, Bunning.

All these persons, in varying degree, bad become of concern to him.

The world that had always been a place of smoke, of wind, of sky, was now, of a sudden, crowded with figures.

He bad been swept from the hill-top down into the market-place.