But as with the bits of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope, the elements of Bordello's mind remain the same.

It is only towards the end of his career, on the forcible introduction into his life of new elements from the outward world, that his character radically changes, and his soul is born.

He wins that which he has been without from the beginning.

He wins, as we should say, a heart.

He not only begins to love Palma otherwise than in his dreams, but with that love the love of man arises--for, in characters like Sordello, personal love, once really stirred, is sure to expand beyond itself--and then, following on the love of man, conscience is quickened into life, and for the first time recognises itself and its duties.