She shows things, don't you see?
as some fine tourist region shows the placards in the fields and the posters on the rocks.

And what proof can you adduce ?" she asked.
Mr.Cashmore had grown restless; he picked a stray thread off the knee of his trousers.

"Ah when you talk about 'adducing'-- !" He appeared to intimate--as with the hint that if she didn't take care she might bore him--that it was the kind of word he used only in the House of Commons.
"When I talk about it you can't meet me," she placidly returned.

But she fixed him with her weary penetration.

"You try to believe what you CAN'T believe, in order to give yourself excuses.