It's good to say 'No' when you want more pudding but mustn't have it." Barbara was no prig.

She did not care the least little thing about these things, nor did she ever mention them, but let a question of conduct arise, then was Barbara's way plain and clear.

She did not always take it, but there it was.

With Mary, how very different! She had, I am afraid, no sense of right and wrong at all, but only a coolly ironical perception of the things that her elders disliked and permitted.

Very foolish and absurd, these elders.