It made the old man cough with fury and propel himself up and down the room in his wheel-chair until, with a feeling of whirling fire in his brain, Kenny wondered if a man could lose his sanity by watching an infuriated lunatic in a wheel-chair narrowly miss everything in his way.
But he made no further effort at rebellion.

Instead he went each night, invincible in his determination not to be outdone.

When by playing on his pity Adam trapped him he smiled and shrugged.

When the old man assailed him with shafts of truth, no matter what the aftermath of communion with himself and his notebook, he accepted it with composure and an air of interest.

When in a fury, Adam reviled him for his phlegm, he laughed and was cursed for his pains.
"You told me, Adam," he said, "that my greatest drawback is a habit of excitement and temper.