"Some people haven't half the luck, and it's hard to be content with a short allowance and pretend you're the same as every one else.

It can't always be done." She turned away as she said it, so Peachy only caught the sound of a grumble and did not hear the actual words.

Had she done so she might possibly have exhibited more sympathy, for she was a very kind-hearted girl.

Neither she nor anybody at the Villa Camellia understood Lorna in the least.

So far their classmate had been somewhat of a chestnut-bur, and nobody in the Transition had ever penetrated her husk of reserve.
There is generally a reason for most things in life, if we could only know it, and poor Lorna's morose and hermit attitude at school was really the result of matters at home.