Relations and associations that before had been banked in ignorance came forth and looked at him.
"You surely have known us before, though you had forgotten that you knew us!" He found that he was taking delight in these expansions of meaning.

He thought, "If I can get abroad out of this danger, out of old circles, I'll roam and study and go to school to wider plans!" He suddenly thought, "This kind of thing is what Old Steadfast meant when he used to say that I did not see widely enough." He moved sharply.

A hot and bitter flood seemed to well up within him.

"He himself is seeing narrowly now--Alexander Jardine!" He left the crag and went for a scrambling and somewhat dangerous walk along the mountain-side.

There was peril in leaving that one rock-curtained place.