The woman of letters didn't know she was waking a sleeping wolf!

女作家不知道她在自找麻烦。

She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.

这些人对作家的崇拜热让她感到又好笑又鄙夷，但是她却同他们周旋应酬，十足表现出一个有名望的女文学家的风度。