ruth had always been extremely generous with pieces of her mind , and her advice had often scandalized her nineteen-year-old wet-behind-the-ears roommate from falmouth foreside ... which had undoubtedly been the idea , or part of it ; ruth 's heart had always been in the right place , and jessie had never doubted that ruth actually believed sixty per cent of the things she said and had actually done forty per cent of the things she claimed to have done .