"How to deal with a real gentleman? One can cheat him with
plausible excuses, but not hoodwink him into believing the trick that is a deviation from the norm."

Is the gentleman stupid enough not to tell a lie from a truth? No, I think he knows if he wants to. But as long as the explanation is not
paradoxical by itself, then he won’t fuss it over. Of a mind of
magnanimity and empathy, he will take every reasonable word or move fromothers for granted. Nevertheless, he can hardly be cheated with and coaxed into anything against his principle of lofty proprieties.