She was clearly surprised, but all they said was said low and inexpressively, because they were speaking out into the cool dark night.
"More people were in love with her than with any one I've ever known," Helen stated.

"She had that power--she enjoyed things.

She wasn't beautiful, but--I was thinking of her last night at the dance.

She got on with every kind of person, and then she made it all so amazingly--funny." It appeared that Helen was going back into the past, choosing her words deliberately, comparing Theresa with the people she had known since Theresa died.
"I don't know how she did it," she continued, and ceased, and there was a long pause, in which a little owl called first here, then there, as it moved from tree to tree in the garden.
"That's so like Aunt Lucy and Aunt Katie," said Rachel at last.

"They always make out that she was very sad and very good." "Then why, for goodness' sake, did they do nothing but criticize her when she was alive ?" said Helen.