'nothing 's the same without mother , ' said lionel 'it started to fall apart when julien died , but without mother it 's impossible carlotta and stella are oil and water in that house ' it does seem to have been entirely carlotta 's doing that antha and nancy ever went to any school indeed , the few school records we have been able to examine with regard to antha indicate that carlotta enrolled her and attended the subsequent meetings at which she was asked to take antha out of the school .