Was she grateful to me for my plain speaking?

她是因为我的直白而感激我吗？

This was plain speaking, and Mary Lennox had never heard the truth about herself in her life.

这话很直白，玛丽·伦诺克斯一生中从未听过关于她自己的真相。

The kind of, cliche is that all Northerners are plain speaking and always say hello and things like this and more friendly. I'm not convinced that's really true.

有一种老生常谈的说法是，北方人都很朴实，总是说你好之类的话，而且更加友好。我不相信这是真的。

But the point is that Miss Lavish was positively ATTRACTED by his mentioning S., and said she liked plain speaking, and meeting different grades of thought.

但关键是，拉维什小姐被他提到的 S. 深深吸引了，并说她喜欢直言不讳，喜欢见识不同层次的思想。