She wrote to her dear niece Alice, and to her dearest niece Kate, and sent little presents to her father.

On one occasion she took her husband to Vavasor Hall, and there was a regular renewal of all the old family feelings.

Arabella's husband was an old man, and was very old for his age; but the whole thing was quite respectable, and there was, at any rate, no doubt about the money.
Then Mr Greenow died; and the widow, having proved the will, came up to London and claimed the commiseration of her nieces.
"Why not go to Yarmouth with her for a month ?" George had said to Kate.

"Of course it will be a bore.

But an aunt with forty thousand pounds has a right to claim attention." Kate acknowledged the truth of the argument and agreed to go to Yarmouth for a month.