all had their fixed and recognised places in their world just as
girls of several terms' experience have their recognised places in
their school, and for Rosalie there seemed to be no place at all,
just as for new girls there is no place. Her brothers and sisters
all had their fixed and recognised places, their interests, their
occupations, their friendships: they all knew their own places and
each other's places; they had learnt to respect and admit each
other's places; they knew the weight of one another's hand in
those places; they were accustomed to one another; they tolerated
one another.

It was all very strange and wonderful and mysterious to Rosalie.

She was, as it were, pitchforked into this established and regulated
order and to find a place for her was like trying to fit a new
spoke into a revolving wheel. It cannot be done; and with Rosalie
it could not be done. The established wheel went on revolving in
its established orbit and the new spoke, which was Rosalie, lay
outside and watched it revolve. Intrusions within the circumference
of the wheel commonly resulted in a sharp knock from one of the
spokes. No one was in any degree unkind to Rosalie, but there was
no proper place for her and everybody's will was in authority over
her will. She rather got in the way. To be with her was not to
enjoy her company or to enjoy battle with her and the putting of
her company to flight. To be with her was to have to look after
her, and in the community of the rectory, every member, when Rosalie
came, was fully occupied in look-ing after itself and defending
itself from the predatory excursions of any other member.

What happened was that in time, just as a slight and negligible