What I want to say about Priscilla is this.

It is a thousand pities she is so obstinate, so pig-headed, so certain that she can manage everything for herself better than anybody else can for her." Miss Stanbury was striving to say something good of her niece, but found the task to be difficult and distasteful to her.
"She has managed for mamma ever so many years; and since she took it we have hardly ever been in debt," said Dorothy.
"She'll do all that, I don't doubt.

I don't suppose she cares much for ribbons and false hair for herself." "Who?
Priscilla! The idea of Priscilla with false hair!" "I dare say not;--I dare say not.

I do not think she'd spend her mother's money on things of that kind." "Aunt Stanbury, you don't know her." "Ah; very well.

Perhaps I don't.