With this lack of understanding of the other sex, grew up a sort of awe of it.

His opportunities of this kind of study were so few that the view never could become rectified.
And so it was that from his boyhood up to his twelfth year, Harold's knowledge of girlhood never increased nor did his awe diminish.

When his father had told him all about his visit to Normanstand and of the invitation which had been extended to him there came first awe, then doubt, then expectation.

Between Harold and his father there was love and trust and sympathy.

The father's married love so soon cut short found expression towards his child; and between them there had never been even the shadow of a cloud.