Aunt Frances Quotes

“Aunt Harriet was very small and thin and old, Grace was very small and thin and middle-aged, Aunt Frances (For Elizabeth Ann called her ‘Aunt,’ although she was really, of course, a first-cousin-once-removed) was small and thin and if the light wasn’t too strong might be called young, and Elizabeth Ann was very small and thin and little.”

“As soon as the baby came here to live, Aunt Frances stopped reading novels and magazines, and re-read one book after another which told her how to bring up children.”