Why shouldn't she be annoyed ?" I answer: "Why should she be annoyed?
Will her annoyance stop Mrs.
Smith's eating sugar on baked beans?
Will she in any way--selfish or otherwise--be the gainer for her annoyance?
Furthermore, if it were the custom to eat sugar on baked beans, as it is the custom to put sugar in coffee, this woman would not have been annoyed at all.

It was simply the fact of seeing Mrs.Smith digress from the ordinary course of life that annoyed her." It is the same thing that makes a horse shy.

The horse does not say to himself, "There is a large carriage, moving with no horse to pull it, with nothing to push it, with--so far as I can see--no motive power at all.

How weird that is! How frightful!"-- and, with a quickly beating heart, jump aside and caper in scared excitement.

A horse when he first sees an automobile gets an impression on his brain which is entirely out of his ordinary course of impressions--it is as if some one suddenly and unexpectedly struck him, and he shies and jumps.