Lines from "To the lighthouse"

[Tom]

Hi

For the last seven days I have been racking my mind with the given lines. Virginia Woolf's famous novel TO THE LIGHTHOUSE starts with these.Could you please simplify the lines to me? I would be thankful and grateful both.

YES, OF COURSE, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night's darkness and a day's sail, within touch. Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests, James Ramsay, sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores, endowed the picture of a refrigerator, as his mother spoke, with heavenly bliss.

Thanks in advance

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

The fact that his mother said "yes" made him so incredibly happy that everything in the world suddenly seemed exquisitely heavenly.

Amy

[Tom]

As usual, a lot of thanks, Amy

Could you please shed some light on the given lines?

* as if it were settled,

*Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests...

Tom

[Yankee]