She lived in mortal fear that company would come and find her unprepared--Alma Jones or Jabez Lincoln and his wife, or Ben and Mary Humphries, or "Mr.and Mrs.Horace Dunkelberg." These were the people of whom she talked when the neighbors came in and when she was not talking of the Bayneses.

I observed that she always said "Mr.and Mrs.Horace Dunkelberg." They were the conversational ornaments of our home.

"As Mrs.Horace Dunkelberg says," or, "as I said to Mr.Horace Dunkelberg," were phrases calculated to establish our social standing.

I supposed that the world was peopled by Joneses, Lincolns, Humphries and Dunkelbergs, but mostly by Dunkelbergs.
These latter were very rich people who lived in Canton village.
I know, now, how dearly Aunt Deel loved her brother and me.

I must have been a great trial to that woman of forty unused to the pranks of children and the tender offices of a mother.