There are always one or two outright derelicts in the neighborhood, men cast adrift by life, waiting patiently to be cast up on some hospitable and nurturing shore, finding it, often, here.
And maybe he's from this other planet where he's-- maybe he's high brow, and his family's rich, but he's an outcast because he likes to gamble, and maybe he's from this-- I had all these ideas.
The hard reality was, that her father had so admitted tempting doubts into his mind as to become a schismatic — an outcast; all the changes consequent upon this grouped themselves around that one great blighting fact.