Writer shows the character in action and let us decide for ourselves what kind of person we are meeting Answers may vary. Check with me to see if you are correct! “She patted the empty place beside her on the sofa, and she sat there smiling at Billy and waiting for him to come over” (78). “His landlady sailing into the room with a large silver tea tray in her hands. She was holding it well out in front of her, and rather high up, and though the tray were a pair of reins on a frisky horse” (76). “But this dame was like a jack in the box. He pressed the bell—and out she popped” (74).