A blind man can see Grenfell's unworldliness.

It sticks a yard out of him.

My dear Wentworth, if energetic elbows were, as you imply, the key to success, how do you account for the fact that hundreds of painful persons have triumphantly passed that preliminary examination who never achieve anything beyond a diploma in the art of pushing ?" Wentworth did not answer.
He firmly believed that in order to attain the things he had not attained, had never striven for, of which he invariably spoke disparagingly, but which he secretly and impotently desired, the co-operation of certain ignoble qualities was essential, sordid allies whom he would have disdained to use.
"I don't blame Grenfell," he said at last.

"He had his way to make.

I know how blinding the glamour of ambition is, how insidious and insistent the claims of the world may become.