Now Timmy, asleep, looked like an angelic cherub, and so very different from his usual alert, inquisitive, little awake self.

And there welled up in Radmore's heart the strangest feeling of tenderness--not only for Timmy but for the whole of the Tosswill family--not only for the Tosswill family, but for the whole of this sturdy, quiet, apparently unemotional world of England to which he had come back.
The human mind and brain work in mysterious ways.

Radmore will never know, to the day of his death, the effect that this curious night drive had on the whole of his future life.

He was not a man to quote poetry, even to himself, but to-night there came into his mind some words he had heard muttered by a corporal in Gallipoli: "What do they know of England Who only England know ?" When he had left his homeland, now nearly ten years ago, he had been in a bitter mood.

It had seemed to him that his own country was rejecting him with scorn.