His name stood high in the list of successful candidates at the last Indian Civil Service examination.

Now he reaped the reward of past endeavour.

For with that deposition of heavy baggage at Radley's the last farewell to years of tutelage seemed to him to be spoken.

Nursery discipline, the restraints and prohibitions--in their respective degrees--of preparatory school, of Harchester, of Oxford; and, above all and through all, the control and admonitions of his father, the Archdeacon, fell away from him into the limbo of things done with, outworn and outpaced.
This moved him as pathetic, yet as satisfactory also, since it set him free to fix his mind, without lurking suspicion of indecorum, upon the large promise of the future.

He could give rein to his eagerness, to his high sense of expectation, while remaining innocent of impiety towards persons and places holding, until now, first claim on his obedience and affection.