He secretly despises Jourdain but flatters his aristocratic dreams. Krishna flatters her in a boyish prank tone. She flatters and cajoles him until he agrees to return with her to Moscow. He perceives her restlessness, flatters her, and tells her of his unhappy childhood. In a similar way, the poet flatters the dark (swart) complexioned night. He presents her with flowers and charms and flatters her. Joe finds her script abysmal, but flatters her into hiring him as a script doctor. Loki flatters the Dwarves and asks the Spear of them, which they give him. In 1880 he was an assistant topographer on the first Flatters expedition. This caused a furious response from Flatters, who possibly felt his competence was being questioned.