There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism, so that they exist in it and by it only.

有些人的生活只是社会有机体的一部分，他们只能生活在这个有机体内，也只能依靠它而生活，这种人总是给人以虚幻的感觉；思特里克兰德夫妇正是这样的人。