"Will you look at it ?" she cried.

"Only imagine her not getting my dress ready, and then sending me such a petticoat as this! Ellen would pay fifty dollars for it and never blink.

I suppose mother has had it all my life, and I never saw it before." "Go take your bath and put on those things," said the Bird Woman.
"Forget everything and be happy.

She is not insane.

She is embittered.
She did not understand how things would be.