Class

• 'Leon and Celcilia were his childhood best friends'

  • robbie
  • poor friends with the rich
• 'spent his childhood moving freely between the cottage and the main house'

  • robbies class doesn't constrict him to the stereotypical boundaries
• 'I've agreed to pay your father back that's an arrangement'

  • robbie
• 'He was a hobby of jacks living proof of some leveling principle hhe had pursued throughout the years'

  • do the tallis family see robbie as charity work?
  • reduces robbie to just a hobby
  • does emily like robbie?
• 'how self destructive it would be, almost errotic, to marry a man to be married to a man so nearly handsome so hugely rich and so unfathomly stupid'

  • cecilia about paul marshall
  • cecilia doesn't believe In the upper classes marrying