He's a nice chap, and a cleverish chap, in the shrewd, unimaginative Potter wayJane's way, tooonly she's a shade clevererbut

That's why he'll never be more than cleverish and mediocre, never the real thing.

It wasn't positively discreditable to its writer, like most novels, but it was a very normal book, by a very normal cleverish young man.