A Reversion to Type by E.M. Delafield

Maurice Lucian was entirely right in supposing that there were no such things as "rows" at Squires, but the absence of them was not accepted as a matter of course by Rose Aviolet.

A great deal of her intercourse with her dead mother had consisted in descriptions -- perhaps vehement rather than accurate -- on Mrs. Smith's part of "a real old hullabaloo between her and me, and I gave it her straight, _I_ can tell you, with her silly old letter about putting it into the hands of her solicitors if I didn't pay up then and there," and on Rose's part of "Well, Mother, I wasn't going to stand that from a girl like Esther Moses, needless to say, and I said, Mother, I just said, ‘Yes, you may be very good at arithmetic,' I said, ‘and good reason why,' I said, ‘_Jewess! _"