He could see that the Old Gentleman was crushed under it, and that he had never imagined that his son could have been so base as this.

Vandover wondered what he was going to do.

It would seem as if he had destroyed all of his father's affection for him, and he trembled lest the Old Gentleman should cast him off, everything.

Even if his father did not disown him, he did not see how they could ever be the same.

They might go on living together in the same house, but as far apart from each other as strangers.