"I'll tell you later what character in fiction I think you're like. It takes me a while to make up my mind about things like that. I seem to jump at conclusions a good deal quicker than I do."
"Can you always tell whether you like people or not, at first meeting?"
"Yes, I can. Can't you?"
"Yes."
Peggy looked up quickly, and then her eyes dropped to her plate and she began eating rapidly.
"She's shy, too," Elizabeth thought.
"If you'll come upstairs after dinner," she said, aloud, "I've got something I want to show you. You've come just in time to give me your advice about something pretty exciting."
As she was leaving the dining room something made her turn and look back at her grandmother, who was smiling broadly to herself, like the Cheshire cat in "Alice in Wonderland."
"The something I was going to show you was her surprise to me," Elizabeth whispered to Peggy.