You couldn't do a thing like that.

Don't we KNOW?
Don't pay any attention to her.

We aren't going to.
It'll hurt her worse than any kind of punishment we could give her.

Oh, she's a VILE old thing! Too vile for words! Aunt Phoebe and I shouldn't belittle ourselves by even listening to her.

SHE can't do any harm unless we let it bother us--what she says.