They believed that she couldn't say anything else except "Don't!" and "Go up stairs!" and they were always in dread lest they should come across an aunt like her.
"She's the dearest aunt in the whole world," said mother, "and she never says, 'Don't,' except when she's obliged, but when she does say it little boys have to mind.

When I was a little girl I thought there was nobody like Aunt Emma, nobody who could make such plans or tell such splendid stories." "And, mother, can't she cut out card dolls?
asked Milly.

Don't you know those beautiful card dolls you have in your drawer at home--didn't Aunt Emma make them ?" "Yes, of course she did.

She made me a whole family once for my birthday, a father and a mother, and two little girls and two little boys.

And each of the children had two paper dresses and two hats, one for best and one for every day--and the mother had a white evening dress trimmed with red, and a hat and a bonnet." "I know, mother! they're all in your drawer at home, only one of the little boys has his head broken off.