她反映了，我们不再谈论明智的男人或明智的女士。看来，他们的位置已经被各种各样的浅薄的人物所占据，而同样的人也准备好在各种主题上发音。
(We do not talk about wise men or wise ladies any more, she reflected; their place had been taken, it seemed, by all sorts of shallow people-actors and the like-who were only too ready to pronounce on all sorts of subjects.)