f. not being gullible
Teach him to listen to all men...
but teach him also to filter all he hears
Do you think the lawyer was gullible? How could he have avoided being taken for a ride?
What could the Governor have done to securely bring back Evans to the prison when he caught him at the Golden Lion? Does that final act of foolishness really prove that “he was just another good-for-a-giggle, gullible governor, that was all”?