"You're so--so _excessive_ in all you do." Nan laughed.
"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," she acknowledged.

"Well, what's the Kitten's news?
What colour is her hair this season ?" "Red.

It suits her remarkably well." Nan rippled with mirth.
"I never knew a painted Jezebel so perfectly delightful as Kitty.

Even Aunt Eliza can't resist her." Mrs.McBain, generally known to her intimates as "Aunt Eliza," was a connection of Nan's on the paternal side.

She was a lady of Scottish antecedents and Early Victorian tendencies, to whom the modern woman and her methods were altogether anathema.