Kitty could not manage her at all, and as she thought of all they had endured daily at Emily's hands, she felt almost thankful that soon the management of her would fall to Aunt Pike's lot.
"Did you say, Miss Kitty, that the master had asked Mrs.Pike to come here to live altogether, to look after us ?" Kitty nodded despairingly.

After all, the managing of Emily seemed but a very trifling advantage to weigh against the Pike invasion and all that would follow on it.

"O Fanny," she sighed brokenly, "if only--if only mother were alive! Nothing has gone right since, nor ever will again; and I feel it is almost all my fault that Aunt Pike has got to come, and--and--" "Now don't take on like that, Miss Kitty," said Fanny, sniffing audibly, and not entirely able to throw off a sense of her own guilt in the matter.

"'Tisn't nothing to do with you, I'm sure.

If things _'as_ to be, they _'as_ to be, and we'll manage some'ow.