The sting in this was that Anna was suspected of having Roman
Catholic tendencies.

Flora was very pretty and had a gay, bold way. Anna was not
pretty. She had a great habit of compressing her lips, especially
in encounters with Flora, and somehow her face gave the impression
that her lips always were compressed. That was the expression it
normally had; it was only when Rosalie saw Anna actually compress
her lips that she realised they had not been compressed before.
It was as though she was always annoyed about something and then,
when she compressed her lips, a little more annoyed than usual. She
had also a permanent affliction which much puzzled Rosalie. Young
men friends of Harold's frequently called at the rectory, and one
afternoon, when two of them called, Anna was the only one at home
to entertain them (except Rosalie). Flora and Hilda rushed into
the drawing-room, directly they came in, and shortly afterwards
Rosalie saw Anna come out. Anna stood in the hall quite a long
time with her lips compressed, and then went into the dining-room
and sat down, but almost at once got up again and went back into
the drawing-room, and Rosalie heard Flora call out, "You can't join
in now, Anna. You can't join in now. We're in the middle of it."
Shrieks of laughter were going on. When the young men went, Flora
and Hilda, who had their hats on, walked away with them. Anna was
left at the door. When the girls came back Anna said to Flora, "I
do think you might have told me you'd arranged to go with them to
see it."

Flora said, "Oh, darling, I thought the Pope had told you."

They had the worst row Rosalie had ever heard them have. Anna did