Oh, it's not that! It's... [she pauses, thinking about this. she knows now that a lot of her notions about what the eldest should do were simply wrong. but still, her original plans for the future were practical--if a bit too based on what she thought was expected of her]

Well. I was meant to inherit the family business, so it hardly seemed proper. Martha is the youngest, so she seemed most suited to a long apprenticeship in magic. [she frowns, remembering how badly she had misunderstood her sisters] But as it turned out, Lettie wanted to learn magic, so she and Martha switched places after the apprenticeship began.