The Horse-Dealer's Daughter

Mabel's brothers come up with a few different options..... living with her sister Lucy is one of them. Lucy has already written that she can come if she likes. Joe says she can go as a servant. Her brother Malcolm says she should go into nurse's training.

'You'll go and stop with Lucy for a bit, shan't you?' he asked. The girl did not answer.

'I don't see what else you can do,' persisted Fred Henry.

'Go as a skivvy,' Joe interpolated laconically.

The girl did not move a muscle.

'If I was her, I should go in for training for a nurse,' said Malcolm, the youngest of them all. He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.

But Mabel did not take any notice of him. They had talked at her and round her for so many years, that she hardly heard them at all.

Why doesnt she live with her sister, Lucy?