She should have been less honest, and more discreet; less bold, and more like in her words to the ordinary run of women.

She had known this as she was packing last night, and she told herself that it was so as she was dressing on this her last morning at Perivale.

That frankness of hers had not been successful, and she regretted that she had not imposed on herself some little reticence,--or even a little of that coy pretence of indifference which is so often used by ladies when they are wooed.

She had been boldly honest, and had found her honesty to be bad policy.

She thought, at least, that she had found its policy to be bad.