But I felt like that was the real strength of the piece is, like, I got this sort of unvarnished picture of you because you, like, kept a lot of those moments in there.
However, it was now too late for these lugubrious thoughts; and, bracing herself, she began to frame the new reply to Bishop Helmsdale—the plain, unvarnished tale that was to supplant the undivulging answer first written.