after this , you may suppose i opened miss barrs note with great eagernessthe seal attesting that my mother had not been curious enough to do soand for once my expectations did not meet with disappointment , for though she told much the same tale in two crossed sides , she was far less discreet , and did not hesitate to record many details , that mrs. grayson had elected to pass over ; or perhaps she may not have known them : i can well imagine , that mrs. barr may have been reluctant to confess to either of the graysons some of mrs. smithtons wilder accusations , which she might have admitted to her daughter , in the first flurry of agitation .