She seems to think more of that Mollie and Fay and Kell than she does of her father.
It is funny that when you are with Eugenia you can't help feeling the same way she does about what she's telling; that it is right to break the rules and skip recitations and torment the teachers and play jokes on the girls not in their set.

She seems to have a great influence over Lloyd.

I don't believe godmother would like it if she knew how much.
Already Lloyd has promised to tease her father and mother into letting her go to New York next fall, to enter Eugenia's school.

She told us that it is very select, and said, "You know sometimes schools that advertise themselves as being awfully select are no better than those horrid public schools, for they take anybody who applies, no matter how common they are." Joyce asked her why she called public schools horrid, and she answered in such a disgusted, patronising way, "Oh, nobody who _is_ anybody would go to a public school." That made Joyce mad, and she told her that she went to one and that she was proud of it; that where she lived public schools were considered better than the private ones.

They had better teachers and more progressive methods; and she said she wouldn't give up the Plainsville High School for all the select seminaries in New York.
Then Eugenia drawled in _such_ a bored tone, "Oh, _wouldn't_ you! Well, maybe _you_ wouldn't, being from the West, you know.