Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: It was no use telling Lucia not to go into the house, so we did not even try. We just watched her as she strode in there, her right eye glittering as it caught the yellow paraffin flame, glittering dangerously at Takesure, who wisely shrank back into his corner of the sofa. ‘Fool!' snorted Lucia, looming over him, arms akimbo. 'Fool!' And she whirled to face Babamukuru, so that now her left eye glittered. 'Look at him, Babamukuru! Look at him trying to hide because now I am here.' Takesure looked braver when he had only Lucia's back to contend with, but his reprieve was brief. 'If you have an issue with me, Lucia advised him, ‘stand up and let us sort it out plainly.' In two strides she was beside him and, securing an ear between each finger and thumb, she dragged him to his feet. 'Let me go, let me go,' he moaned. I always maintain that I saw smiles slide over the patriarchy's faces, but it might have been my imagination because I was laughing myself. We were all laughing outside. The next thing that I remember clearly was my father starting out of his chair and Lucia warning him to stay in it if he preferred Takesure with ears. Then Babamukuru, who was wise, told my father to sit down and let Lucia speak. And Lucia spoke. 'Tell me, Babamukuru, she asked companionably, her hands at waist height so that Takesure was bent double. ‘Tell me, Babamukuru, would you say this is a man? Can it be a man that talks such nonsense? A man should talk sense, isn't it? So what can this be?' and she tweaked its ears to find out what it would say. 'Let me tell you, Babamukuru, she continued earnestly. ‘Maiguru asleep in her bedroom there is the only one with a sensible head on her shoulders. She knows better than to poke into what does not concern her.' 'Er, Lucia, commanded Babamukuru, deploying his peremptory tone which had worked so well at the beginning of the vacation. 'Er, Lucia, contain yourself. Do not do anything of which you will be ashamed.' 'And of what should I be ashamed?' she retorted. 'I just want this Takesure,' and she shook his head to make the point, 'I just want this Takesure to stop talking nonsense about me. Takesure, have you ever seen me riding a hyena's back? Have you ever seen me, hey? Answer me.' Viciously she tweaked, enjoying herself. 'No,' moaned Takesure. ‘I have never.' 'Then what is this nonsense you are saying? Ha! You make me sick, the lot of you.' She flung Takesure back on to the sofa, where he sat rubbing his ears. 'I shall leave this home of yours, Babamukuru, and I shall take my sister with me,' she told my uncle. 'But before that, Babamukuru, I want to tell you why I refused to go. It was because this man, this Jeremiah, yes, you Jeremiah, who married my sister, he has a roving eye and a lazy hand. Whatever he sees, he must have; but he doesn't want to work for it, isn't it, Jeremiah? And why do I bother to tell you? You know it, all of you; you know it. So could I go and leave my sister alone with this man who has given her nothing but misery since the age of fifteen? Of course not. It was not possible. As for Takesure, I don't know what he thinks he can give me. Whatever he can do for me, I can do better for myself. So, Babamukuru, don't worry. I'm going. Right now. There's nothing to keep me. But I'm taking my sister with me.' They wanted to talk to her. They wanted her to sit down and be calm and discuss the matter rationally, but Lucia had had enough and came back out to join us. The patriarchy put its heads together and conferred in low voices because now they knew we were listening. I imagined all sorts of dire consequences. How does Dangarembga make this an important and significant moment in the novel?