Then the street-arabs fell on him, annoyed by his new clothes and immense white collar, and at the end of the third week he reached home after dark with a cut on his forehead and spattered with mud.
The next day Jonah called on Clara to make some other arrangements.
His tone was brusque, and Clara noticed with surprise that he was inclined to blame her for Ray's mishap.

He seemed to forget everything when it was a question of his son.

But all of the Duchess in Clara came to the surface in her annoyance, and she suggested that the lessons had better come to an end.

Absorbed in his egotistic feelings, Jonah looked up in surprise, and his anger vanished.

He saw that he had offended her, and apologized.