I know what ye're getting at.

She was not enough like Eileen to make him unhappy with her.

He might have been if he had known all there was to know, but for his own sake I was not the one to give her away, though she constantly made him think that I was extravagant and wasteful in me work." Linda's eyes came back from the mountains and met Katy's straightly.
"Katy," she said, "did you ever see sisters as different as Eileen and I are ?" "No, I don't think I ever did," said Katy.
"It puzzles me," said Linda slowly.

"The more I think about it, the less I can understand why, if we are sisters, we would not accidentally resemble each other a tiny bit in some way, and I must say I can't see that we do physically or mentally." "No," said Katy, "ye were just as different as ye are now when I came to this house new and ye were both little things." "And we are going to be as different and to keep on growing more different every day of our lives, because red war breaks out the minute Eileen comes home.

I haven't a notion what she will say to me for what I did last night and what I am going to do in the future, but I have a definite idea as to what I am going to say to her." "Now, easy; ye go easy, lambie," cautioned Katy.
"I wouldn't regret it," said Linda, "if I took Eileen by the shoulders and shook her till I shook the rouge off her cheek, and the brilliantine off her hair, and a million mean little subterfuges out of her soul.
You know Eileen is lovely when she is natural, and if she would be straight-off-the-bat square, I would be proud to be her sister.