In what Miss Winwood called his subtle Italian way, he induced his patron to discuss the speeches before the process of composition.

These discussions, involving the swift rapier play of intelligences, Colonel Winwood enjoyed.

They stimulated him magically.

He sat down and wrote his speeches, delightfully unconscious of what in them was Paul and what was himself; and when he delivered them he was proud of the impression he had made upon the House.
And so, as the years passed, Paul gained influence not only in the little circle of Drane's Court and Portland Place, but also in the outer world.

He was a young man of some note.