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She thought that Ellen was `` fast . '' Was this what she had learned at school -- to flout the standards of her home ? § 6 The next morning Joanna overslept herself , in consequence of a restless hour during the first part of the night . As a result , it had struck half past seven before she went into her sister 's room . She was not the kind of person who knocks at doors , and burst in to find Ellen , inadequately clothed in funny little garments , doing something very busily inside the cupboard . `` Hullo , duckie ! And how did you sleep in your lovely bed ? ''