I won't stand being criticized and lectured at every turn.

Save your criticisms for those who are silly enough to take them seriously, but please don't imagine for an instant that what you may think or say carries the slightest weight with me." Before Patience could frame a reply the newspaper girl had rushed from the room, slamming the door with a vehemence that fairly shook the walls.
She did not return to the room until after dinner, and then only long enough to slip into her coat and hat.

During that brief moment she neither spoke to nor noticed Patience, who went quietly on with her studying as though nothing had happened.

Kathleen's outburst had made no impression upon this calm-faced girl, but Patience's all too truthful words had sunk deeper into the newspaper girl's mind than she cared to admit..