uot;all right".
             He also expresses his view on Clarissa or at least his view on her public superficial self. He is quite critical and ironical towards her too even if he also admires her. When he talks about "her Prime Minister", her snobbishness is underlined, we feel as if the embodiment of all what is snobbish was hers. She is also represented as a good hostess, greeting and presenting people to each other, but it is exactly what Peter has always reproached her for. He emphasizes her superficiality due to her marriage with Richard, who has influence in the government. He hints to the "stateliness" of her hair, says that she prances, sparkles, wears "ear-rings" especially for the party since we learnt earlier in the novel that she is not fond of jewels. He adds that her "severity, "prudery" and "woodenness" becomes softer but once again we are told that she does not get to the bottom of things because it does not touch or affect her, as he puts it in that case she leaves. And it can be asserted that it is exactly what happens when Mrs Hilbery tells her that she resembles her mother, she is touched but superficially and "alas, she must go".
             On top of that it can be noticed that Clarissa is also hypocritical, we have a good example with her description of Sir Harry. She exclaims "Dear Sir Harry!" as if she was very pleased to see him but at the same time she is very ironical about his awful pictures and his activities which are like his paintings "founded on cattle standing absorbing moisture in sunset pools".
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