I think we know it in our cradles." She spoke with a strange philosophy, far beyond her years.

It might have been Madame de Chantonnay who spoke, with all that lady's vast experience of life and without any of her folly.
"You think I am pretty.

Perhaps I am.

Just pretty enough to enable you to pretend, and you have pretended very well at times.

You are good at pretending, one must conclude.