Till We Have Faces

How does Orual feel when the Fox calls Psyche "Prettier than Aphrodite?" Why does she feel this way?

It should be in chapter 2 of Till have faces

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The Fox, Grandfather, makes it seem as if she is jealous. Orual, however, seems to genuinely feel his words foreshadow something bad.

"Speak words of better omen, Grandfather,"I said, though I knew he would scold and mock me for saying it.For at his words, though on that summer day the rocks were too hot to touch, it was as if a soft, cold hand had been laid on myl eft side, and I shivered.
"Babai!" said the Fox. "It is your words that are ill omened. The divine nature is not like that. It has no envy."
But whatever he said, I knew it is not good to talk that way about Ungit.

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