Newland Archer, during this briet episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment. It was annoying that the box which was thus attracting the undivided attention of masculine New York should be that in
which his betrothed was seated between her mother and aunt and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire
dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated. Then light dawned on him, and with it
came a momentary rush of indignation. No, indeed, no one would have thought the Mingotts would have tried it on!
But they had, they undoubtedly had, for the low-toned comments behind him left no doubt in Archer's mind that the young
woman was May Welland's cousin, the cousin always referred to in the family as "poor Ellen Olenska."
Archer knew that she
had suddenly arrived from Europe a day or two previously, he had even heard from Miss Welland (not disapprovingly) that
she had been to see poor Ellen, who was staying with old Mrs. Mingott. Archer entirely approved of family solidarity, and one
of the qualities he most admired in the Mingotts was their resolute championship of the few black sheep that their blameless
stock had produced. There was nothing mean or ungenerous in the young man's heart, and he was glad that his future wife
should not be restrained by false prudery from being kind (in private) to her unhappy cousin; but to receive Countess Olenska
in the family circle was a different thing from producing her in public, at the Opera of all places, and in the very box with the
young girl whose engagement to him, Newland Archer, was to be announced within a few weeks. No, he felt as old Sillerton
Jackson felt, he did not think the Mingots would have tried it on!
Consider the following excerpt from Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.
In this passage, Wharton reveals aspects of Newland Archer's character through. . .
Select one:

A) His physical appearance
B)His behaviors and actions
C)What other characters think of him
D)His internal thoughts and feelings