But the worst of all was when she showed us how to examine our
conscience. Did we take the name of the Lord, our God, in vain? Did
we honour our father and our mother? (I asked her did this include
grandmothers and she said it did.) Did we love our neighbours as
ourselves? Did we covet our neighbour 5 goods? (I thought of the
way I felt about the penny that Nora got every Friday.) I decided
that, between one thing and another, I must have broken the whole
ten commandments, all on account of that old woman, and so far as
I could see, so long as she remained in the house, I had no hope of
ever doing anything else.