Did he know enough to be able so to refer to him?
Or was it merely by chance that his words were so strikingly apposite?
"Compensations of what kind ?" Sutch asked uneasily.
"The chance of knowing himself for one thing, for the chief thing.

He is brought up short, stopped in his career, perhaps disgraced." Sutch started a little at the word.

"Yes, perhaps--disgraced," Durrance repeated.

"Well, the shock of the disgrace is, after all, his opportunity.

Don't you see that?
It's his opportunity to know himself at last.