"Why, first, I think we'd better find your Auntie Anthea.

When Anne saw the light coming she shut her eyes and burrowed under the blankets, she knew it was Auntie Adeline trying to be a mother to her.

(You called them Auntie Adeline and Uncle Robert to please them, though they weren't relations.)

"Anne," he said, "don't you think you can love Auntie Adeline?" Anne straightened herself.

But I want to think by myself, and Auntie Adeline keeps on getting in the way.

"Do you love Auntie Adeline, Daddy?"

"Yes, Auntie, really Anne.

" "Do you like what Auntie Adeline calls my new nose?" "Awfully.

" "Is Auntie Adeline bothered?" "No.

"Do you want me to, Auntie?"

And Grannie and Aunt Emily after Auntie Adeline.

"Who are the Durhams, Auntie?"

Extraordinary, because this inactivity did violence to Anne's nature; besides, Auntie Adeline behaved as if you were uninteresting and unimportant, not attending to a word you said.

Enough that Auntie Adeline was there where Uncle Robert and Eliot and Colin and Jerrold were; she belonged to them; she belonged to the house and garden; she stood with the flowers.

I know Auntie wants you.

I felt the same about Auntie Adeline after Mother died.

" "But Auntie, I don't love him.

" "I'm sorry, Auntie.

" "Oh Auntie, what about Father?

But Auntie, I'm years older than he is.

Dearest Auntie Adeline,I haven't been able to write before.

Darling Auntie,I'm so sorry about dear Col-Col.

I know it's been awful for you, Auntie.

She was saying to herself: "Why not this one instead of the other?" "O auntie!"

She would tell Auntie: and they would think how it could be.