I considered her to be a pink-and-white nonentity, without an idea beyond a neat adjustment of pearl-powder, and then found that she possessed brains enough to outwit two minds of no mean calibre, namely, yours, Middleton, and my own.

Evelyn was the only person who had the slightest suspicion of her, and that hardly amounted to more than an instinct, for she owned that she had no reason to show for it." "I wonder Lady Mary was so completely taken in by her to start with," I said.
"I don't," replied Charles.

"I have even heard of elderly men being taken in by young ones.

Besides, suspicious people are always liable to distrust their own nearest relatives, especially their prepossessing nephews, and then lay themselves open to be taken in by entire strangers.

She wanted to get Ralph married, and she took a fancy to this girl, who was laying herself out to be taken a fancy to.