Fate is repeatedly trying to figure Flo out and get close to her. It’s not going to happen. Flo is a terror when it comes to dogs, she hisses at them, and if they get close, swats them across the nose. She had the fearsome Frieda so terrorized, she would not come into a room if she had to get past Flo.
Flo is the Queen of the farm, she does not wish to be Fate’s friend. Fate has been hissed at a half-dozen times, swatted once. She’s had enough.