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.

I was on my seat and she stood opposite.

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

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