Was it perhaps partly that Mr Mandela, did she get the feeling, was pulling strings, leading the government along? Nelson Mandela is twisting them around his little finger.
Spencer had been spoiled, treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger.
This situation would be one humdinger of a funny story to tell his city friends over a drink or two - and perhaps to boast to Corosini that he’d wrapped her around his little finger with a few husky phrases and a glimpse of his superlative body.