However you came to be so skimpy and flat-chested is a mystery to me.

All the Quinceys were tall, your uncle Tollington was tall, your father, he was tall; and your sister, well; I will say this for Louisa, she's as tall as any of 'em, and she has a _bust_." "Yes, I daresay it would have been very becoming to Louisa," said Miss Quincey humbly.

"I--I thought it was lavender." "Lavender or no lavender, I'm surprised at you--throwing money away on a thing like that." "I can afford it," said Miss Quincey with the pathetic dignity of the turning worm.
Now it was not worm-like subtlety that suggested that reply.

It was positive inspiration.

By those simple words Juliana had done something to remove the slur she was always casting on a certain character.