This chapter is all about quality control. It's all about how important it is to follow the rules, even if they're not the ones you're supposed to follow. The narrator is upset that she has to sit with the aunts all the time. She feels like she's being discriminated against because of her gender, but Caroline isn't trying to do anything about it. She's just trying to keep the rules as they are. Caroline is trying to maintain the status quo, even though she herself is a woman, too. She tries to be a woman too, but she also tries to maintain a status quo that doesn't recognize her gender. She wants to be the one to be discriminated against, but it's Caroline's job to make sure that everyone else is treated the same way. She can't just tell people who are good and who are bad, so she needs to be careful who she chooses to partner with. She needs to choose her partners carefully, because she'll never know who's the good one and who'll be the bad one. So Caroline should be careful of those who don't know the difference