He wondered if she knew how much larger and more important a man he was now.

Into the pleached garden of his life came a new vision of the procession of the days; and he was no longer content.

He saw the vision of a world holding the cares and duties of a man.
That this revolution had come to pass was by reason of the presence of this blind woman who walked tap-tapping, led by a little dog; a blind woman who for some reason had begun to smile again.
As for Doctor Barnes, he had been the actual agent, to be sure.

This new order of things was the product of his affirmative and initiating mind.

Mary Gage, consciously or unconsciously, within a few weeks, learned his step as surely as his voice, could have told you which was his car had a dozen come into the yard at the same time.