His father's secondary occupation of teaching brought other boys to the house and necessitated a domestic routine which had to be exact.

There was no place for little girls in a boys' school; and though many of Dr.An Wolf's friends who were mothers made much of the pretty, quiet boy, and took him to play with their children, he never seemed to get really intimate with them.

The equality of companionship was wanting.

Boys he knew, and with them he could hold his own and yet be on affectionate terms.

But girls were strange to him, and in their presence he was shy.