'...He walked at the other's heels with a swing to his shoulders and his legs spread unwittingly as if the level floors were tilting up and sinking down to the heave and lunge of the sea.  The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.  He recoiled from side to side between the various objects and multiplied the hazards that in reality lodged only in his mind.  Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast yet he essayed it with trepidation.  His heavy arms hung loosely at his sides.  He did not know what to do with those arms and hands and when to his excited vision one arm seemed liable to brush against the books on the table he lurched away like a frightened horse barely missing the piano stool.  He watched the easy walk of the other in front of him and for the first time realized that his walk was different from that of other men...