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 New York City in the 1870s. In the novel, Newland Archer attends an opera. Newland compares his intellect favorably to that of other men of New York City society who are in the audience: blank

"It surprised [Newland] that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed."

"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 [Newland's] acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna."

"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."