It was not correct.

Why persist in misstatements and inaccuracies when one knew better?
So Agatha said iced cream when she meant it, and frozen custard, when custard it was, but every other woman in the neighbourhood, had she acted as she felt, would have slapped Agatha's face when she said it: this both Adam and Kate well knew, so it made Kate laugh despite the fact that she would not have offended Agatha purposely.
"I think--I think," said Agatha, "that Nancy Ellen has much upon which to congratulate herself.

More education would not injure her, but she has enough that if she will allow her ambition to rule her and study in private and spend her spare time communing with the best writers, she can make an exceedingly fair intellectual showing, while she surely is a handsome woman.

With a good home and such a fine young professional man as she has had the good fortune to attract, she should immediately put herself at the head of society in Hartley and become its leader to a much higher moral and intellectual plane than it now occupies." "Bet she has a good time," said young Adam.

"He's awful nice." "Son," said Agatha, "'awful,' means full of awe.