[Her eyes follow the hand down to the beads. After a moment, she smiles. "Shirley" can't have gone on her walk to see Fenimore's tapestry, since she can't think of a way the other girl could have known about it in advance. But she takes it as a compliment.]

Ahh, that's what you meant. I was surprised they had so many colours of beads around--I guess people haven't been using them.