Hetty's was a spring-tide beauty; it was the beauty of young frisking things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of innocencethe innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe steeple-chase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the middle of a bog.

Lamb's Aunt Hetty was his father's sister.

" My brother Hal is still a young man, being little more than 50, and Hetty is now a staid little lady.