Dempster, a "fool-saint," continues through the years and occasions his tangential connections with Boy, with her absentee son (a magician), and his inquiry into the nature of faith and illusion, substance and shadow. Dunstan's continuing responsibility and affection for Mrs. A little later, wandering like Ophelia but toward a gravel pit, she had lain there publicly with a tramp and from that time on the Dempsters were ostracized. Dempster has a child prematurely and lapses into a simple-minded state. After throwing a snowball with Boy (a secondary figure here) Mrs. Most of it consists of his involvement (too strong a word, really) since his childhood with a Mrs. Thus on the sidelines, or rather in the wings, is Dunstan Ramsay who, annoyed by a pious envoi to his forty five years of teaching in a Canadian boys' school, reviews his life. The fifth business in classical drama is undertaken by a lesser character who assists the denouement he's the odd man out.
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