17/31 The name of the lady who stood to Clara in the place of an aunt has been already mentioned. When a girl has a mother, her aunt may be little or nothing to her. But when the mother is gone, if there be an aunt unimpeded with other family duties, then the family duties of that aunt begin--and are assumed sometimes with great vigour. Such had been the case with Mrs. No woman ever lived, perhaps, with more conscientious ideas of her duty as a woman than Mrs.Winterfield of Prospect Place, Perivale. |