She said that I was trustworthy and that she was not, and--in short, all sorts of nonsense.
She abused herself roundly--accused herself of no end of defects." "What defects, for instance ?" "Oh, I have n't remembered them.

She said she had a bad temper--that she led her mother a dreadful life.

Now, poor Mrs.Vivian says she is an angel." "Ah yes," Bernard observed; "Mrs.Vivian says that, very freely." "Angela declared that she was jealous, ungenerous, unforgiving--all sorts of things.

I remember she said 'I am very false,' and I think she remarked that she was cruel." "But this did n't put you off," said Bernard.
"Not at all.

She was making up." "She makes up very well!" Bernard exclaimed, laughing.
"Do you call that well ?" "I mean it was very clever." "It was not clever from the point of view of wishing to discourage me." "Possibly.