The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs Pearce.
Pickering je ginjen spričo slovesnosti te usmiljenja vredne ženske z njeno nedolžno nečimrnostjo in trdovratno domišljavostjo, saj se je vzravnal že v navzočnosti Pearceove.