He somewhat coyly looks away from the camera as if not quite ready for his close-up, but all the while preening.
The "little mystery" she coyly invokes here was not so trivial in the eyes of the literary world.
The book has seven sections (or 'strings to its lyre', as he coyly puts it).
She later continues the puppet show theme likening him to a marionette and coyly asking who is pulling the strings?
He stares ahead at her as she looks coyly out at the viewer.
The difference is that he boasts of doing things which his predecessor coyly admitted doing.
I wonder what those bulky items are that are so coyly described.
After all, it did not glide coyly into the world.
