Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim?

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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton set in 1870s New York City. In the novel, Newland Archer attends an opera. The narrator describes Newland's tendency to follow the social conventions dictated by other men of New York City society who are in the audience:

Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim?

"Singly [the men around Newland] betrayed their inferiority; but grouped together they represented 'New York,' and the habit of masculine solidarity made him accept their doctrine on all the issues called moral."

"Newland Archer, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box [where his seat was], turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the opposite side of the house."

"Newland Archer felt himself distinctly the superior of these chosen specimens of old New York gentility; he had probably read more, thought more, and even seen a good deal more of the world, than any other man of the number."

"No expense had been spared on the setting, which was acknowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared"