"What I did was to slow right down so that Ruth, coming behind me, could instead pass through the door beside Miss Geraldine. I did this without any fuss, as though this were the natural and proper thing and what Miss Geraldine would like-just the way I'd have don't if, say, I'd accidentally got myself between two best friends." -pg 62
Something I have been beginning to notice about Ishiguro's writing is his meticulous attention to detail, specifically detail about facial expressions, vocal hints, and body language. He uses these little nuances and small glances to reveal the subtleties of characters and their motives. These details apply specifically to Ruth. Since Ruth is the most creative, imaginative, and sly of the cast, the details about the small expressions she uses reveal more about her than any other character. So far I have discovered her to be manipulative, creative, ambitious, and desperate for attention. This profile has been building for a while, but in the passage above the audience begins to discover a few new details about Kathy.
Kathy, as we have seen her so far, has a lot of attention to detail, is very nosy, kind, and very attentive to rules. In the incident over Ruth's pencil case, ended in the passage above, Kathy revealed to be relenting, forgiving, slightly perceptible to guilt. She owed Ruth nothing, but for some reason felt the need to placate her. These traits might be some of the factors that make Kathy such a good carer in the future. However, these traits make Kathy vulnerable to Ruth's manipulative antics.
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