She's busy, in the first place, with what she writes.

I see you're smiling ironically, but you're wrong.

She's writing a children's book, and doesn't talk about it to anyone, but she read it to me and I gave the manuscript to Vorkuev...you know the publisher...and he's an author himself too, I fancy.

He understands those things, and he says it's a remarkable piece of work.

But are you fancying she's an authoress?--not a bit of it.