AUNT MARIA--THE ENEMY ROUTED--LONDON TOWN Aunt Maria was my father's sister.

She was married to a wealthy gentleman, and had a large family of children.

It was from her that we originally got Nurse Bundle; and anecdotes of her and of my cousins, and wonderful accounts of London (where they lived), had long figured conspicuously in Mrs.Bundle's nursery chronicles.
Aunt Maria came, and Uncle Ascott came with her.
It is not altogether without a reason that I speak of them in this order.

Aunt Maria was the active partner of their establishment.

She was a clever, vigorous, well-educated, inartistic, kindly, managing woman.