Eileen: has had things all her own way long enough.

I am getting such a big girl I ought to have a few things in my life as I want them.

Something must be done." Then Linda proceeded to do something.

What she did was to lean forward, rest her head upon the steering wheel and fight to keep down deep, pitiful sobbing until her whole slender body twisted in the effort.
She was yielding to a breaking up after four years of endurance, for the greater part in silence.

As the months of the past year had rolled their deliberate way, Linda had begun to realize that the course her elder sister had taken was wholly unfair to her, and slowly a tumult of revolt was growing in her soul.