“It is not my fault,” Agnes says after a moment and in an infuriatingly measured voice, “if you have certain expectations of our relationship that I never invited you to have. It is not my fault,” she adds, “that you insist on pretending that being sisters means anything to any of us.” “Well, it should,” Isla snaps, and notes that the blood from her hand is now dripping down into the sleeve of her sweater. Morven’s voice: You never think anybody likes you. “Well, it doesn’t,” Agnes replies, and then Irene is back, looking between them in apparent bewilderment, and Isla resists the urge to tell
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