The new recruit had been with the gang since the beginning of the summer holidays, and there were possibilities about his brooding silence that all recognized. he never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. when he said “trevor” it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. nor did anyone laugh except mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again. there was every reason why t., as he was afterward referred to, should have been an object of mockery—there was his name (and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it), the fact that his father, a former architect and present clerk, had “come down in the world” and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbors. what but an odd quality of danger, of the unpredictable, established him in the gang without any ignoble ceremony of initiation? (from “the destructors” by graham greene) from the above passage, one can characterize trevor or t as