but I find it odd that someone would meddle so much in the lives of so called friends without it being somewhat pathological. I am not suggesting that the intense interest in Anne is sexual in nature by any means, but it is obsessive none the less. Anne is an adult when this book opens -- she is no longer a teenage girl -- and she is old enough to make her own decisions. Lady R needs to find another hobby than trying to mold people into what she thinks they should be -- she is no true friend of Anne IMO, as she hasn't a clue as to what the young woman is about.