"I should have thought that of all the commonplace, unimaginative people you have ever described to me, Mr.Weatherley was supreme." "And I," Arnold agreed.

"And so, in a way, he is.

It is his marriage which seems to have transformed him--I feel sure of that.
He is mixing now with people whose manners and ways of thinking are entirely strange to him.

He has had the world he knew of kicked from beneath his feet, and is hanging on instead to the fringe of another, of which he knows very little." Ruth was silent.

All the time Arnold was conscious that she was watching him.