Tribute from Oileymead Kate Vavasor, in writing to her cousin Alice, felt some little difficulty in excusing herself for remaining in Norfolk with Mrs Greenow.

She had laughed at Mrs Greenow before she went to Yarmouth, and had laughed at herself for going there.

And in all her letters since, she had spoken of her aunt as a silly, vain, worldly woman, weeping crocodile tears, for an old husband whose death had released her from the tedium of his company, and spreading lures to catch new lovers.

But yet she agreed to stay with her aunt, and remain with her in lodgings at Norwich for a month.
But Mrs Greenow had about her something more than Kate had acknowledged when she first attempted to read her aunt's character.
She was clever, and in her own way persuasive.

She was very generous, and possessed a certain power of making herself pleasant to those around her.