According to paragraph 15, the narrator describes that the Kelveys were shunned and sneered at and treated less respectfully by the other girls in their community because of their social status.
While other schoolgirls received invitations to the dollhouse, the Kelvey girls were never invited, even when Kezia begged her mother to allow her show the Kelveys the dollhouse. All the schoolgirls treated the Kelveys with total disdain. Unfortunately, Aunt Beryl was no better, fostering the courage to order the Kelveys out of the Burnell's yards.
Thus, with descriptive words on how the Kelvey girls were ill-treated by other schoolgirls, Katherine Mansfield illustrated the cruelty and evils behind class distinctions based on unwarranted social prejudices.
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