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“Florence did not altogether like being interrupted. She had a good deal more to say and this untimely intrusion of a child’s banter broke up the conversation. Before turning to another topic she took silent stock of her young cousin, looking her up and down, and, for the first time, mentally separating her from the rest of the family.” (Pg. 103, internet archive)

He watched her closely and at last discovered the flaw. It shocked him excessively. She was being, there was no other word for it, consistently hasty to her young cousin.” (Kennedy, 230)


“Unhappiness,” she said, in the voice of Uncle Charles, “is bound to come to every one of us. I don’t think we’d escape it in each others company, Lewis.”
“Nor do I. But I want your company.”
(Kennedy, 246)

XV: The children escape school

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Apparently it’s taboo for a girl under 13 years to be with an adult man but it’s not if she’s 14. Maybe it has to do with the British perception of Italians?