It is a gigantic bluff, you know, but it comes off.

Most bluffs do come off if one is only daring enough." "You must tell them that up at Redcliffe," Lord Arranmore remarked.
Sybil laughed heartily.
"Redcliffe is the one place where mother is dumb," she declared.

"Up there they look upon her as a stupid but well-meaning person.

She is absolutely afraid to open her mouth." "They are so absurdly literal," Lady Caroom sighed, helping herself to an infinitesimal portion of a wonderful savoury.

"Don't talk about the place.