She could no more change and be correct to her own understanding than the multiplication table.
"Feather-beds are good enough for anybody who stays in this hotel, I don't care who it is," she said.

She would not make an exception, even for Miss Eliza Farrel, the assistant teacher in the high school, although she had, with a distrust of the teacher's personality, a great respect for her position.

She was inexorable even when the teacher proposed furnishing a spring-bed and mattress at her own expense.

"I'd be willing to accommodate, and buy them myself, but it is a bad example," she said, firmly.

"Things that were good enough for our fathers and mothers are good enough for us.