She is treating me as if I were a four-year-old instead of a woman with as much brain as she has.

If she appears while I am gone tomorrow and starts away again, you tell her Come to think of it, you needn't tell her anything; I'll give you a note for her." So Linda sat down and wrote: DEAR EILEEN: It won't be necessary to remind you of our agreement night before last to settle on an allowance from Father's estate for me.

Of course I realize that you are purposely avoiding seeing me, for what reason I can't imagine; but I give you warning, that if you have been in this house and have read this note, and are not here with your figures ready to meet me when I get home tomorrow night, I'll take matters into my own hands, and do exactly what I think best without the slightest reference to what you think about it.

If you don't want something done that you will dislike, even more than you dislike seeing me, you had better heed this warning.
LINDA.
She read it over slowly: "My, that sounds melodramatic!" she commented.
"It's even got a threat in it, and it's a funny thing to threaten my own sister.

I don't think that it's a situation that occurs very frequently, but for that matter I sincerely hope that Eileen isn't the kind of sister that occurs frequently." Linda went up to her room and tried to settle herself to work, but found that it was impossible to fix her attention on what she was doing.