He is not particularly smart (???You know your Shelley, Bertie!??? ???Oh, am I????), but he can see through cant and absurdity, and even his pomposity is self-deprecating: The Woosters are chivalrous, but they can speak their minds. [She was a] droopy, soupy, sentimental exhibit, with melting eyes and a cooing voice and the most extraordinary views on such things as stars and rabbits.