It astonished her to come across the man again as Mr.
Raeburn's friend.
They talked about Hallin a little, and about Aldous's Cambridge acquaintance with him.

Then Marcella, still nervous, went to look at the bookshelves, and found herself in front of that working collection of books on economics which Aldous kept in his own room under his hand, by way of guide to the very fine special collection he was gradually making in the library downstairs.
Here again were surprises for her.

Aldous had never made the smallest claim to special knowledge on all those subjects she had so often insisted on making him discuss.

He had been always tentative and diffident, deferential even so far as her own opinions were concerned.
And here already was the library of a student.

All the books she had ever read or heard discussed were here--and as few among many.