She's father's aunt, too.

Her husband died last winter and she was left very poor and lonely, so the Wrights took her to live with them.

Mother thought we ought to take her, but father put his foot down.

Live with Aunt Atossa he would not." "Is she so terrible ?" asked Anne absently.
"You'll probably see what she's like before we can get away," said Diana significantly.

"Father says she has a face like a hatchet--it cuts the air.