Robert, educated by his mother and adoptive father Wringhim, is brought up to follow Wringhim's radical sect of Calvinism, which holds that only certain elect people are predestined to be saved by God.
Robert, educated by his mother and adoptive father Wringhim, is presented in the first section of the book as being priggish, malicious, and conceited. He is indoctrinated into Reverend Wringhim's radical sect of Calvinism, which holds that only certain elect people are predestined to be saved by God.