Of this one thing he was sure to certainty: that if he had been able to
introduce any such element of interest into his wife's residence as he
had, through merely saying the word, in his own, it surely would have made
some of the big difference then it was making now. He found himself
brooding, yearning over his sons, and his feeling for them broadening and
deepening. As he daily saw James seeking more and more to be with him, to
understand what he was doing, his pride in being able to feel that he had
helped if it were no more than to sit in court and hand a marked book at
the right moment, he began to make a comrade of, and to develop a feeling
of dependence on, the boy.
He watched Malcolm with his quicker intellect, his daily evidence of
temperament, his rapidly developing musical ability, and felt the tingle
of pride in his lithe ruddy beauty, so like his mother, and his talent, so
like hers. The boy, under the interest of the music, and with the progress
he was making in doing a new, unusual thing, soon began to develop her
mannerisms; when he was most polite, her charm was apparent; when he was
offended, her hauteur enveloped him.
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