I told him everything--all about the cooking lessons, and the astronomy book we read an hour every day, and the pink silk dress I couldn't have, and even about the box of chocolates and the self-discipline.

And how she said if she'd had self-discipline when she was a girl, her life would have been very different.

And I told him about how she began to hush me up from laughing too loud, or making any kind of noise, because I was soon to be Mary, and she wanted me to get used to it, so I wouldn't trouble him when I got here.
I talked very fast and hurriedly.

I was afraid he'd interrupt, and I wanted to get in all I could before he did.

But he didn't interrupt at all.