"Well, but it's right, Bohemia is one of Poland's neighbors." Yes. Good job, Harry Percy! Now--where were they? "--Right. Um. Europe in general was tending more and more towards absolutism, absolute monarchies. In Poland and Lithuania the nobility controlled the government--a large nobility, all equal to one another, with guaranteed freedoms. Nice for the nobility, though the peasants still had nothing--"

He's losing the thread of his speech, and he suspects he's lost his audience's attention, and maybe he's said enough to make his point for now.