She had evidently expected a more impersonal answer, and she was dissatisfied.

For an instant she seemed inclined to make a rejoinder, but she slowly picked up her work in silence and drew her stitches again.
Rowland had for the second time the feeling that she judged him to be a person of a disagreeably sophisticated tone.

He noticed too that the kitchen towel she was hemming was terribly coarse.

And yet his answer had a resonant inward echo, and he repeated to himself, "Yes, on the whole, I prefer ours." "Well, these models," began Mr.Striker.

"You put them into an attitude, I suppose." "An attitude, exactly." "And then you sit down and look at them." "You must not sit too long.