"How do you know what I do? It's not like you cared until now!" she shouted back. Tilly backed into the kitchen and closed the door. This had not been the first brother she'd had a fight with over her living situation. Magnus had not been kind. Then she said with clenched teeth, "I would rather die a thousand deaths than to spend time in that... that... wretched school ever again. And don't call me selfish. This is the first I ever asked anything of papa and he agreed with me! He said it would give me character to have a job and my own house."