What do the underlined sentences in this excerpt from william dean howells's "editha" reveal about the speaker?

She is outspoken and direct

E . Outspoken and direct

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

so you can understand and comprehend the meaning or the reasoning of the statement or the message

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