"If you can ever be as much of a lady as your aunt Camilla, I shall be glad," her mother often told her.

Camilla was to Lucina the personification of the gentle and the genteel.

She was her ideal, the model upon which she was to form herself.
Camilla was so unceasingly punctilious in all the finer details of living that all who infringed upon them felt her mere presence a reproach.

Children were never rough or loud-voiced or naughty when Miss Camilla was near, though she never admonished otherwise than by example.

As for little Lucina, she would have felt shamed for life had her aunt Camilla caught her toeing in, or stooping, or leaving the "ma'am" off from her yes and no.
Camilla, this afternoon, did what Lucina had fondly hoped she might do--proposed that they should sit out in the arbor in the garden.