"He held forth one night, when I was staying at Wendover at Easter, about it--and it was such fun.

Cis did not really understand a single thing of the classical allusions he was making--but she got through.

I watch her with delight.

Men are sweetly simple bats, though, aren't they?
Any woman can take them in--" and Cora laughed again joyously.

"I have sat sometimes in fits to hear Cis keeping a whole group of your best politicians enthralled, and not one seeing she is just repeating parrot sentences.
You have only to be rich and beautiful and look into a man's eyes and flatter him, and you can make him believe you are what you please.