It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.
Ann, on the other hand, worries about being plump, is what.
Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits.
Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn\'t quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer.
It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish