At one point, James took to social media to post semicryptic messages about the importance of fitting in.

I was on my seat and she stood opposite.

To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.

He always gets straight As; he must study a lot.