Anna was twenty then. Anna had "finished her education" four years
ago. She had left school "to help your mother in the house"; and
when Flora, two years later, finished her education and left school
for the same purpose, she found Anna grooved in the business of
helping her mother in the house and she was not in the least anxious
to help Anna out of the grooves and herself become imbedded in
them.

This annoyed Anna.

Rosalie used to hear Anna say to Flora a dozen times a day, "I
really don't see why you should be the one to do nothing but amuse
yourself all day long. I really don't."

Flora used to say, "Well, you've always done it"--whatever the duty
in dispute might be--"so why on earth should I?"

Then either Anna's face would give a twitch and she would walk out
of the room, or her face would get very red and there would be a
row.

Or sometimes Flora to Anna's "I really don't see why--" would say
enticingly, "Don't you?"

"No, I don't."

"Then ask the Pope," and Flora would give a mocking laugh and run
away out of the reach of Anna's fury.