Dog jumped in and saved his friend's life, but he and Rose ended up being blamed anyway for letting poor, weak James fall in the water to begin with. One day, James and Dog were hiding from Rose when a sudden weakness struck James and he fell into the channel. Rose was a kind and gentle girl and her friendly manner bonded her not only to James but to the only other child on the estate, the groundskeeper's son who answered only to 'Dog.' The three of them got along quite well in their younger days, despite Dog's scrappy manner and James's frailty.

She hired Rose on as a companion for the young master while his father was busy with work and his poor, addled mother locked herself away in her quarters. Hopkins found an orphaned girl named Rose, who was around James' age. Down in the village, the housekeeper Mrs. Young James developed problems of his own as he grew, becoming a weak and sickly boy with all manner of allergies, sensitivity to the sun, the water, the cold and so forth. The full events surrounding young John's death, Elizabeth's mental state, and the odd claw-like scar marks on her backside remain unexplained. Furthermore, young John died tragically and mysteriously before his 13th birthday, and this event prompted Master John to send his wife away to a sanitarium for a time. Despite being well off, however, the Howletts seemed touched by tragedy and scandal – the lady of the manor, Elizabeth Howlett, had an affair with the groundskeeper, Thomas Logan, making him the true father of one or both of her children. The Howlett family was quite rich, with James' grandfather being a self-made millionaire (truly impressive for the time period), and his father John managing the family fortune well enough.

He was raised the son of John and Elizabeth Howlett, and the younger brother of John Howlett Jr. James Howlett was born on his family's estate in Alberta, Canada, in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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