The sensation produced by Princess Myakaya's speeches was always unique, and the secret of the sensation she produced lay in the fact that though she spoke not always appropriately, as now, she said simple things with some sense in them.
In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
Princess Myakaya could never see why it had that effect, but she knew it had, and took advantage of it.