He remembered that the fashionable young people were casual nowadays. Only last Wednesday one young man had confessed to running down a pedestrian in the most unconcerned of tones. I love it. It's so Parker. And of course Lady Mary would pick Treasures of the Holy Land, wouldn't she? Though I think Parker is a little unfair to Pope (a rare moment of daydreaming at school, perhaps?) -- surely it's "the proper study of mankind is man."