"I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn.
He was far off and unapproachable at times even when he was right there with you..
Something in father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substance of the human spirit, had reached out and spoken to him and he had replied to it and had unlocked a part of himself to us.
It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. "I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn