Sinclair Lewis

“ Daggett is anything but dull and inoffensive, and if he can play that estimable role----! It seems that he is the son of some common workman in the Middlewest; he isn't an engineer at all; he's really a chauffeur or a taxi-driver or something; and he ran into Claire and Henry B. on the road, and somehow insinuated himself into their graces--far from being silent and commonplace, he appears to have some strange kind of charm which," Jeff sighed, "I don't understand at all. ”