So this Mrs.Whitney isn't really any relation of his at all.

But he'd always known her, even before she married his cousin; and so, when her husband died, and she didn't have any home, he asked her to come here.
I don't know why Aunt Jane went away, but she's been gone 'most four months now, they say here.

Nellie told me.

Nellie is the maid--I mean hired girl--here now.

(I _will_ keep forgetting that I'm Mary now and must use the Mary words here.) I told Mother that she (Cousin Grace) was quite old, but not so old as Aunt Jane.