Great catch New Girl! The subtle connections and clues between episodes on MM are just as good as on ABC's "Lost," another favorite of mine.

Yes - I do think that this foreshadows another encounter with the Arthur.

Could be new girl,
Just yesterday there was a big casting call for the stables ( which I couldn't do because no one who's worked the show before could), but there is a big scence coming up!

arthur is creepy

Absolutely -- I noticed the F. Scott Fitzgerald book too. On another earlier post, I wrote that the majority of posters are underestimating Arthur.

He mentioned Tara visiting him in "New Haven" which pegs him as a Yale man. He's probably a smart guy from a middle-class family who went to Yale on scholarship, met Tara the rich-girl, and is marrying for money and an easy entree into the good life.

I think he may have genuine feelings for Betty; he certainly finds her beautiful and seems to have struck some kind of a chord with her. She told him "I like being around you." And she was visibly shaken when leaving the barn.

I don't know why so many posters think he's an unattractive "creep." He looked pretty handsome to me. He may be just what lonely Betty needs to bolster her neglected ego. The fact that she is now reading the book he mentioned shows that he's made an impression on her. I hope we'll see more of him, but I'm not sure if Betty has the guts to have a full-blown affair just yet.

He's not that handsome, after Don who is, but he definitely has struck a chord!

Hey, I wouldn't kick him out of my haystack!

"The Diamond as big as the Ritz" is about an anticapitalist and was a precursor to "The Great Gatsby". The rich family which the character John Unger visits is struggling to keep a family wealth acquired by very shady, unscrupulous means. The family loses everything and the family faces a terrible downfall. Interesting theme. Remember when Betty's friend mentioned that Arthur was like the character in "A Place in the Sun"trying to fit into society? And, Betty answers, "somewhere is the body of an unwed mother floating in a lake." Interesting.....
Gail,
Her trembling of her hands had not surfaced for a while and after she was approached by Arthur, it happened again. I wonder as I mentioned in another blog, was she a lady of the night, a nymphomaniac, had she cheated on Don early in their marriage? Don was very shaken himself when the a/c salesman came in. He immediately called the psychiatrist and said, "she's worse now than before". Just a note....I wonder...