That one great lie she told about the earth being flat when she knew it
was round all the time! And again how she stuck to it that the sun went
round us when it was we who were going round the sun! This double
falsehood has irretrievably ruined my confidence in her. There is no lie
which she will not tell and stick to like a Gladstonian. How plausibly
she told her tale, and how many ages was it before she was so much as
suspected! And then when things did begin to look bad for her, how she
brazened it out, and what a desperate business it was to bring her shifts
and prevarications to book!