They all three abused the politicians with perfect sympathy; they abused the British drama with perfect sympathy; with no less perfect sympathy they abused the Cubists and the Vorticists and the New Poets.

Mr.Flexen had an odd feeling that they were behaving with entire naturalness and propriety; that their real interest was in the politicians, the British drama, the Cubists, the Vorticists and the New Poets, and not at all in the fate of the murderer of the late Lord Loudwater.

After a while he found himself vying earnestly with Mr.Manley in an effort to display himself as a man of at least equal insight and intelligence.
Olivia did not talk much herself.

She never did.

But she displayed a quickness of understanding and soundness of judgment which stimulated them.