He had taken a liking to Osgood Perkins and was fascinated by Perkins's understated but effective style of acting.

To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him […]

He was nobody's fool, and there was no doubt but he had very soon detected the trick his cousin had played upon him.

When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.