He'll have opportunities we never got." He was getting them already.

The opportunity to wear seven dollar patent leather shoes and a bell-shaped overcoat with a silk collar, to lounge into moving-picture shows and eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes--all these opportunities he was gathering immediately.

Presently, when he learned his way round a little, he would get still bigger ones.
"He's improving fast," said mother.

She was thinking of his patent leather shoes.
"He's popular," said his father.

"I notice it downstairs.