Why doesnt Edward want Alice to tell Bella something about the Diamond he gave to her?

I dont understand why Edward hushes Alice in Eclipse page 467 about hte diamond. Which later on Bella discovers why when she is walking with Jacob to the hideout.


I dont understand more specifically dont want to come to a wrong conclusion. Someone help please?|||Heyah =] ..





Basically Bella thought that the gift was a crystal - that it wasnt worth much.





Then Alice began to say something about diamonds and how he "already had one on ...". Then Edward hushed her because she was gonna say "on her".


If she had said it, Bella would know that the crystal was infact a diamond and very expensive and therefore she wouldnt want it from Edward.





Bella only figured out that it was a diamond when Jacob said "A rock - figures".





(To many, people refer to diamonds as rocks.)





I hope this is what you are lookin for!





Lx|||there was a diamond in the charm that he put on her bracelet. yeah that was confusing to me the first time i read it too. He didnt want alice to tell bella either because bella always feels bad when he gives her nice stuff.|||Edward doesn't want Bella to know that it is a very expensive diamond, because he knows that she would refuse it if she knew. She's considerate like that.|||Because as Bella explains to Edward in the beginning of Eclipse she feels like she doesn't deserve him already so when he does nice stuff or her or buys her anything it puts them more out of balance. The only reason she accepted the bracelet was because he convinced her it was just a hand me down and she thought it was crystal. If she had known it was diamond she would've freaked out and refused it. And Edward hushed Alice because she was about to reveal that Edward already had a diamond on her [the bracelet]|||edward didn't tell bella because he knew that she would refuse, for the diamond was realllyyy expensive and is probably worth a lot more now that it's a family heirloom. she would most definitely refuse to wear it. i think bella probably thought she would lose it or something like that if edward actually told her the truth.|||It probably is because it is a heirloom and there are secrets about it.