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When Anna was nine years old, Brangwen sent her to the da and dancing in her

inconsequential fashion, doing veryold Miss Coates by her indifference to

respectability and by her lack of reverence Anna only laughed

at Miss Coates, liked her, and patronized her in superb,

childish fashion

The girl was at once shy and wild She had a curious contempt

for ordinary people, a benevolent superiority She was very shy,

and tortured with misery when people did not like her On the

other hand, she cared very little for anybody save her mother,

whom she still rather resentfully worshipped, and her father,

whom she loved and patronized, but upon whom she depended These

two, her mother and father, held her still in fee But she was

free of other people, towards whom, on the whole, she took the

benevolent attitude She deeply hated ugliness or intrusion or

arrogance, however As a child, she was as proud and shadowy as

a tiger, and as aloof She could confer favours, but, save from

her mother and father, she could receive none She hated people

who ca, she wanted her

distance She mistrusted intimacy

In Cossethay and Ilkeston she was always an alien She had

plenty of acquaintances, but no friends Very few people whonificant to her They seeuished She did not take people very seriously