Chapter three-quotes

1) 'Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.'

--I think that fowler means that shy and helpless Pyle has been certain danger for him.

2) ' Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; after all there are many of us who can't.)

--I think that Fowler tries to accentuate Pyle's inexpierience of life, because he's much older than Pyle and he sees him in a fatherly view.