Even the value he set on his present success was not often, more actively in his mind than the value he set on the fresh air he breathed.

It was very occasionally that the pride of him came to the surface, and then chiefly when animated by the memory of the time when he had been at a disadvantage in worldly things.

Such memories came to him when he prepared to go to the railway station to meet the Rexfords.

He concealed it perfectly, but it gave him certain swellings of heart to think that Miss Rexford would now gradually see all to which he had attained.
When Captain Rexford had decided upon buying a farm at Chellaston, he had had some correspondence with Principal Trenholme on the subject, having been put into communication with him by the widow of the relative at whose house Sophia and Trenholme had first met.

This was the whole extent of the acquaintance.