normally, of course, he was terrified of blatant liars like joe and always felt a ruinous urge to conspire with them, as he did with his mother, to the effect that they were honest people. in his youth at cambridge freddy had known a liar whom he hated so much that he had given him a solid-gold hunter watch - not his good one, but a very good one.

in any informed society but their own? -- это про что, не могу вспомнить!