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...n though Laura does not want to hide the beautiful trees, she knows she must. Laura goes through a conflict within proper social skills while going out to the garden. She wishes she would have left her bread and butter inside, for it is not proper to eat in someone else's presence. She says good morning to the workers trying to copy her mother's voice. She feels self-conscious from sounding overly dramatic, then stammers like a girl. "Laura's effort to use the proper voice in talking to workmen goes against something she knows internally is right" (Kobler, 1990, p. 80). In the same exchange, one of the workmen gives advice on where to put the marquee; " `Somewhere where it will give you a bang slap in the eye, if you quite follow me', Laura wonders because of her upbringing whether it is quite respectful of a workman to...