Then there was indeed an outcry. All the people in the book began speaking at once. Just at that moment—before the beginning of the first chapter—they were all able to say what they chose.
"Make her stand up!" cried one.
"I never heard such nonsense!" said another.
"Why can't she behave as we do?" asked a third angrily.
"The idea of wanting a change!"
"She'll have to behave like other people in the end."
"So discontented!"
"So very odd!"
So they went on, while Christabel still sat calmly, with her arms crossed.
"I'm not going to begin all over again," she repeated firmly.