She had succeeded in making friends with that French devil.

Davy would understand that she knew how to make herself pleasant to a man.
"And Davidson nodded without looking at her.
"The big beast had got to be quite confidential with her.

She held his cards for him when they were having a game.

Bamtz! Oh! Bamtz in his funk was only too glad to see the Frenchman humoured.

And the Frenchman had come to believe that she was a woman who didn't care what she did.
That's how it came about they got to talk before her openly.