In her opinion the needle is to the woman what the cigarette is to the diplomatist.
"Yes, certainly," she said at last.

"He has done a great deal to form her opinions.

He has made her both read and think on all those subjects she has so long been fond of talking about." She saw Aldous wince; but she had her reasons for being plain with him.
"Has there been nothing else than that in it ?" said Aldous, in an odd voice.
Mrs.Boyce tried no evasions.

She looked at him straight, her slight, energetic head, with its pale gold hair lit up by the March sun behind her.
"I do not know," she said calmly; "that is the real truth.

I _think_ there is nothing else.