I should like to wear something of hers too, for she was really good to us when we were little, and all that long time that I was ill; and we were not always good to her, I am afraid.

Poor Aunt Izzy! What troublesome little wretches we were,--I most of all!" "Were you?
Somehow I never can recollect the time when you were not a born angel.

I am afraid I don't remember Aunt Izzy well.

I just have a vague memory of somebody who was pretty strict and cross." "Ah, you never had a back, and needed to be waited on night and day, or you would recollect a great deal more than that.

Cousin Helen helped me to appreciate what Aunt Izzy really was.