"He's simply posing.

His rudenesses are deliberate where they are not sheer ignorance.

His manner in court showed that he knows how, in the main." A rather superior specimen of the professional politician, but distinctly of that hypocritical, slippery class.

And Margaret's conviction was strengthened later in the day when she came upon him at tea at Mrs.Houghton's.

He was holding forth noisily against "society," was denouncing it as a debaucher of manhood and womanhood, a waster of precious time, and on and on in that trite and tedious strain.
Margaret's lip curled as she listened.