"No, he isn't," said Father Payne, "that's the worst of itbut he is a frantic poseur.

" There was nothing whatever of the gallant poseur in his manner, whatever were the words.

To a woman, it means to take some mansome utterly commonplace man, perhapsperhaps, only an idle poseur such as you are, Felixand to set him up on a pedestal, and to bow down and worship him; and to protest loudly, both to the world and to herself, that in spite of all appearances her idol really hasn't feet of clay, or that, at any rate, it is the very nicest clay in the world.