"If you don't believe me, just you wait. In three days at most, she'll come find you with fresh spring bamboo shoots from the mountains. She'll say she didn't have anything nice to bring you, so she made a special trip up the mountain to dig some up.
And then she'll ask to borrow money.
Maybe her in-laws and her husband are the ones making her do it, and it's not what she truly wants. But the fact that she comes at all means that deep down, she thinks you're the easiest person to fool." The old lady was confident her judgment of character was never wrong.
That included Ian Quincy. He had such a cold, distant aura that made him difficult to approach.
If any woman who wasn't as perceptive, thoughtful, and charming as Cecilia had married him, she'd probably end up getting hit.
"We grew up together. I know Charlotte's character better than anyone," Cecilia said, confident in her understanding of her friend.
