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Arthur got more interesting after he fell for Miss Leckie:

And it makes things clearer, at least, to see how a prissy prosecuting counsel goes about his business.
feel as a lover should - like a man freshly invented
A white flower once a year for Jean, and white lies all the year round for his wife.
You do not doubt that you love her?" <> "That, never. That, never. Which makes it worse. If I could doubt that, then I could doubt everything and sink happily into misery."
"What if everything I have believed about it is wrong? What if it is not special in any way, or at least, special only in the fact of being unadvertised and .. unconsummated?"
That is why I mistrust faith, which is the biggest metaphor of all.

The cast around him:

"There is no police like Holmes."
For the moment he would give him the benefit of the doubt by not reading any of his books.
Miss Leckie made considerable play of being natural, of seeming at times to be reining in with difficulty a great instinctive warmth.
You cannot put a family crest on a mere machine, (a motorbycycle), she argues, let alone one which suffers the regular indignity of breaking down.

Better put: 'children, that is to say imperfect, even defective, adults'

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