In fact, she looked almost angry at the end of her statement, which indicated what she may have gone through herself or seen someone close to her go through.
She spoke with such conviction that she thought that her words had gone through to Flora. However, as she continued talking, all Flora could think of was that,
'Jorge Trimshaw does not address females by their name? That would explain why she had never heard him address her, even by her last name. It turns out that it was something he did all the time and not directed at her.
But why?' and then Flora's frown deepened even more with her heightening curiosity on this. But then she realized that it might not be necessarily true as she had heard him address her friend and his wife by her name on several occasions.
