"It is not like you."
"How do you know?"
"You are not reserved; you are frankly communicative."
"I may be communicative, yet know where to stop. In showing my treasure I may withhold a gem or two--a curious, unbought graven stone--an amulet of whose mystic glitter I rarely permit even myself a glimpse. Good-day."
Caroline thus seemed to get a view of Shirley's character under a novel aspect. Ere long the prospect was renewed; it opened upon her.

"That is not like you," said Caroline; "you are not reserved; you talk frankly."
"I may be frank, yet know where to stop. In showing my treasure I may withhold a gem or two."
Caroline thus got a new view of Shirley. Before long, the prospect was renewed.
