"Won't you introduce yourselves, please ?" Felicity shouted our names and Great-aunt Eliza shook hands all round.
She performed the duty grimly and I concluded I must have been mistaken about the twinkle.

She was certainly very tall and dignified and imposing--altogether a great-aunt to be respected.
Felicity and Cecily took her to the spare room and then left her in the sitting-room while they returned to the kitchen, to discuss the matter in family conclave.
"Well, and what do you think of dear Aunt Eliza ?" asked Dan.
"S-s-s-sh," warned Cecily, with a glance at the half-open hall door.
"Pshaw," scoffed Dan, "she can't hear us.

There ought to be a law against anyone being as deaf as that." "She's not so old-looking as I expected," said Felix.

"If her hair wasn't so white she wouldn't look much older than your mother." "You don't have to be very old to be a great-aunt," said Cecily.

"Kitty Marr has a great-aunt who is just the same age as her mother.