Excuse me, you can't just show up here and change all the rules of the library because you say so. Maybe if it was your private collection that would be one thing, but it's not, it's the village's library. It's public.

And I'm in the middle of at least four books, I'm not returning them, or the others I have out, until I'm finished.

[It probably says something that Elizabeth is more outraged by being separated, involuntarily, from her books than she is about how dictatorial the scenario is. That bothers her too, of course, but the books are very important.]