Now, girls are supposed to be fastidious, but I was the one who suffered most from this.Nora, my sister, just sucked up to the old woman for the penny she got every Friday out of the old-age pension, a thing I could not do.I was too honest, that was my trouble;and when I was playing with Bill Connell, the sergeant- major's son, and saw my grandmother steering up the path with the ug of porter sticking out from beneath her shawl, I was mortified.made excuses not to let him come into the house, because I could never be sure what she would be up to when we went in