In her view they were a designing lot.

It was probably true that Mrs.Perry was fond of show and would have been glad to join the Baynes family, but those items should not have been set down against her.

There was Aunt Deel's mistake.

She couldn't allow any humanity in other women.
She toiled incessantly.

She washed and scrubbed and polished and dusted and sewed and knit from morning until night.