Noticing the green-glow within the vessel, he then heard a recording of his birth mother Lara (voice of Susannah York):"Listen carefully, my son.Wickett""s (Louise Hampton) place just across from the school:A long time ago, yes.A long time.Things are different now.(He hears other voices: "Chips at Brookfield.Discipline, Mr.Chipping, discipline," and the last names of boys during a typical ""call-over."")He remembers how he arrived in 1870 at Brookfield Boys School as a shy, withdrawn 24 year-old Latin master, wearing a bowler hat."Marvin became caught in the conflict between his loyalty o his employer, his love for both Madge and his childhood tenant-farmer sweetheart Betty Wright (Dorothy Jordan), and his roots as a farmer...It was when I met the world.It was when I first met Jimmy Conway." Henry is awe-struck and jubilant as the legendary, "twenty-eight or twenty-nine" year old Conway "worked the room" by shoving hundreds into he pockets of the doorman, dealers, and the bartender.