How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Piper was making my tea and seeming worried that I'd had to get out of bed to get it. In New York, nine-year-olds usually don't do that sort of thing, but wait for some grown-up to do it for them, so I was impressed by her intrepid attitude. (1.4.8)
Daisy's amazed by how competent and self-sufficient her cousins are, as well as how well they are able to take care of themselves and each other. At first she's so stunned that she allows them to take care of her as well, but eventually their example helps her recognize her own strength and skill.
Quote #5
I'm not exactly in the habit of having people take over a perfectly private house to send the inhabitants off to live god knows where for The Duration, and all I could think was this would not happen in America. (1.14.3)
A typical American "this would never happen in America" comment, Daisy's grown frustrated with the way in which English politeness, in her opinion, means letting people walk all over you.
Quote #6
I wondered if this was a cultural thing or what, that no one in this country says You've got to be kidding when told to vacate their home and abandon their newly discovered loved ones by a bunch of jumped-up reject army guys playing war games for a lark. (1.15.6)
For the first time, Daisy's comparison of England to New York isn't a favorable one. It would be so simple, right, just to tell these army quacks to buzz off and leave them all alone, and Daisy's irritated that Osbert and the cousins aren't doing so, like a good New Yorker would. Of course, little does she know that pretty much the same thing was happening back home.