This, as a matter of fact, was Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence's theory on the subject.

For that lady, resting cheerfully on the firm basis of a self-confidence which the possession of money nearly always confers on women, had laughed at Turner all her life, and now proposed to continue that course of treatment.
"Take my word," she had assured Colville, "he was only acting in his usual dense way, and probably thinks now that you are subject to brief fits of mental aberration.

I am not afraid of him or anything that he can do.

Leave him to me, and devote all your attention to finding Loo Barebone again." Upon which advice Colville had been content to act.

He had a faith in Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence's wit which was almost as great as her own; and thought, perhaps rightly enough, that if any one were a match for John Turner it was his sprightly and capable client.