 So it is certainly heavily implied that she had his ear and that he absolutely did listen to her. In the John Adams HBO series, one of the scenes that I really like is in the first episode about the Boston Massacre where you have Laura Linney advising Paul Giamatti that it's like, oh, you're being too pretentious with your language. And for all we know, that she could have actually been looking at his drafts of whatever speech he was going to be making and saying, you need to take this in and do that.