"Information is full of traps; knowledge avoids them, it reads men; and politics is men--and foreign affairs, perhaps! She is remarkable.

I've made some hay in the political world, not so much as the babblers think, but I hadn't her ability at twenty-five." "Why didn't she see through Eglington ?" "My dear Betty, he didn't give her time.

He carried her off her feet.
You know how he can talk." "That's the trouble.

She was clever, and liked a clever man, and he--!" "Quite so.

He'd disprove his own honest parentage, if it would help him on--as you say." "I didn't say it.