"He woke at half past two, an hour which long experience had taught him brings panic intensity to all awkward thoughts. Experience had also taught him that a further waking at the proper hour of eight showed the folly of such panic."
"Not even Fleur loves Soames as he feels he ought to be loved. But in pitying Soames readers incline, perhaps, to animus against Irene. After all, they think, he wasn’t a bad fellow, it wasn’t his fault; she ought to have forgiven him, and so on! And, taking sides, they lose perception of the very si"