they 'd always been friends , which romans considered odd for a woman and her daughter-in-law well , etruscans knew better ; tullia seemed , sometimes , a little like tanaquil 's younger self , bright and personable and a little headstrong , not like her lumpish sister , who was nothing but a nuisance ( but fortunately was easily distracted by giving her some spinning to do , or some weaving , as long as it was neither delicate nor a complicated pattern , though what the point was of having a princess spin when you could get a slave to do it , she could n't fathom ) .