If Eugene Morgan comes to this house, for instance, to see me, your mother can't get up and leave the place the minute he gets here, can she?
What do you want her to do: insult him?
Or perhaps you'd prefer she'd insult Lucy?
That would do just as well.

What is it you're up to, anyhow?
Do you really love your Aunt Amelia so much that you want to please her?
Or do you really hate your Aunt Fanny so much that you want to--that you want to--" She choked and sought for her handkerchief; suddenly she began to cry.
"Oh, see here," George said.

"I don't hate you," Aunt Fanny.

"That's silly.

I don't--" "You do! You do! You want to--you want to destroy the only thing--that I--that I ever--" And, unable to continue, she became inaudible in her handkerchief.
George felt remorseful, and his own troubles were lightened: all at once it became clear to him that he had been worrying about nothing.