Until that point wee sisters had never looked at these papers, or watched the political news on television, least not watched in any avid way. Instead they’d been going through their Joan of Arc phase. While in it, they let it be known that they were not fond of that country from ‘over the water’, not though, because of the usual legacy of history, and of the power of history that had been built up and passed down and reshaped and elaborated upon over what had taken place involving that country and this country – but because of their very natural support of the French.

