How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
[…] all shared Mrs. Archer's belief that when "such things happened" it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. (11.29)
Archer's society holds women to a different standard: if men cheat, it's a lapse in male judgment, but it's always ultimately the fault of the woman.
Quote #5
Archer remembered, on his last visit to Paris, seeing a portrait by a new painter, Carolus Duran, whose pictures were the sensation of the Salon, in which the lady wore one of these bold sheath-like robes with her chin nestling in fur. There was something perverse and provocative in the notion of fur worn in the evening in a heated drawing room, and in the combination of a muffled throat and bare arms; but the effect was undeniably pleasing. (12.13)
Compared to a Victoria's Secret catalog, this painting sounds pretty tame, but Archer is associating Madame Olenska with the same risqué style.
Quote #6
"You mustn't think that a girl knows as little as her parents imagine. One hears and one notices— one has one's feelings and ideas." (16.49)
May constantly surprises Archer with her intuitions. Due to his sense of superiority over her, he never suspects what she's up to until it's far too late.