I can't help that.

But that's all.

Do you understand ?" This speech produced a queer turmoil in Stephen, as though his brother had accused him of a petty view of things.

Feeling that he must justify himself somehow, he began: "Oh, of course I understand, old boy! But don't think, anyway, that I should care a damn--I mean as far as I'm concerned--even if you had gone as far as ever you liked, considering what you have to put up with.

What I'm thinking of is the general situation." By this clear statement of his point of view Stephen felt he had put things back on a broad basis, and recovered his position as a man of liberal thought.