Somewhat more positively, Paddy Kitchen, in "The Times Educational Supplement", thought that the novel "should be taken on the terms it was conceived and not as some contender to... "Howards End"." In delineating "a moral theme", Forster is, in Kitchen's view, "the ideal person." V.S. Pritchett, in "The New Statesman", found the character of Alec "a good deal better drawn" than Mellors in "Lady Chatterley's Lover", although found the dull Maurice, shorn of Forster's "intelligence and sensibility", to be hardly believable. But Cyril Connolly, in "The Sunday Times", found "considerable irony" in the fact that it is Maurice, not Clive, the "sensitive young squire", who "turns out to be the incurable."