Like old Jolyon, he, too, at the bottom of his heart set the blame of the tragedy down to family interference. What business had that lot⁠—he began to think of the Stanhope Gate branch, including young Jolyon and his daughter, as “that lot”⁠—to introduce a person like this Bosinney into the family? (He had heard George’s sobriquet, “The Buccaneer,” but he could make nothing of that⁠—the young man was an architect.)

He began to feel that his brother Jolyon, to whom he had always looked up and on whose opinion he had relied, was not quite what he had expected.