He's an empty-headed young pup.
In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde.
If fainting, or pretending to faint, would do the trick, then she would faint. If simpering, coquetry or empty-headedness would attract him, she would gladly play the flirt and be more empty-headed than even Cathleen Calvert.
