But a dinner to Vetch! I wonder why she is doing it ?" "That's easy.

Mr.Berkeley wants something from the Governor.

I don't know what he wants, but I do know that whatever it is he wants it very badly." "And he thinks he'll get it by asking him to dinner?
There seems to me an obvious flaw in Berkeley's reasoning.

I doubt if Vetch is the kind of man who follows when you hold out an apple.

He appears to be exactly the opposite, and I think he's more likely to dash off than to come when he is called.