plain-minded

Updated: May 25, 2025

"But her character her nature?" "Oh! Well, she is rather plain-minded, as you call it. I think she shows out her real feelings too much for a woman." "Why do you prefer dissimulation in your sex, my dear?" "I don't call it dissimulation. But of course a girl ought to hide her feelings.

William Dean Howells - An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga