And not only was concealment out of the question; reticence, reserve, even dignity itself, as it sometimes seemed, might be very well dispensed with.

As Lady Lyttelton said: "There is a transparency in her truth that is very striking--not a shade of exaggeration in describing feelings or facts; like very few other people I ever knew.

Many may be as true, but I think it goes often along with some reserve.

She talks all out; just as it is, no more and no less." She talked all out; and she wrote all out, too.

Her letters, in the surprising jet of their expression, remind one of a turned-on tap.