But in some ways, she is not at all clever.

She can't or won't understand, and only tells Aunt Felicia I am wanting in sympathy and that I hurt her feelings.

She has unreasonably many feelings, I think, and they are so easily hurt.

I always know when the hurting takes place because she sniffs and then plays Mendelssohn's Songs without Words on the schoolroom piano." Tom chuckled.

She had a caustic tongue on occasion, this nymph-like creature! "Alas, poor Bilson!" he said.