The conflict between father and son had now become an inescapable reality for him and his son Sun-fu, and he now seemed as cantankerous and eccentric to his son as his father had once seemed to him.

• 第二代的“父与子的冲突”又在他自己和荪甫中间不可挽救地发生。而且如果说上一代的侍郎可算得又怪僻，又执拗，那么，吴老太爷正亦不弱于乃翁；