She saw her ex-governess from a new angle--a more illuminating than agreeable one, at which she no longer figured as pitiful, her little assumptions and sillinesses calling for the chivalrous forbearance of persons more happily placed; but as actively impertinent, an usurper of authority and privileges altogether outside her office and her scope.

She was greedy--not a pretty word yet a true one, covering both her manner of eating and her speech.

Registering which facts Damaris was sensible of almost physical repulsion, as from something obscurely gross.

Hence it followed that Theresa must, somehow, be stopped, made to see her own present unpleasantness, saved from herself in short--to which end it became Damaris' duty to unfurl the flag of revolt.
The young girl arrived at this conclusion in a spirit of rather pathetic seriousness.

It is far from easy, at eighteen, to control tongue and temper to the extent of joining battle with your elders in calm and dignified sort.