"Do you think she is one whom it would be easy to impose upon?"
"I know that such a thing would be extremely difficult. She is one of those persons who acquire the ascendency wherever she goes. She is far better educated, far more accomplished, and far more clever than I am, or can ever hope to be. She is clear-headed and clear-sighted, with a large store of common-sense. To impose upon her would be difficult, if not impossible. She is very quick to discern character."
"And yet she trusted this Gualtier?"
"She did; and that is a thing which is inexplicable to me. I can only account for it on the ground that she had known him so long, and had been so accustomed to his obsequiousness and apparent conscientiousness, that her usual penetration was at fault. I think she trusted him, as I would have done, partly because there was no other, and partly out of habit."
"What did you say was the name of the place where you were living when your sister met with her accident?"
"Tenby."
"Was Gualtier living in the place?"
"No."
"Where was he?"
"In London."