Possible Clues:

• Learned difficult lesson by it, apparently
• Enlists boy working on the face of it
• Nothing, within reason, eclipsing first of these, apparently
• Evidently so upset by silent manoeuvres
• Reform is best? Only on the face of it
• Seemingly nothing reasonably worn by model
• Boys silent - flummoxed, to all intents and purposes
• On the face of it, I bless Tony's conversion