They had no friendly feeling towards one another, but missed one another when they were separated.
They were, both of them, as strong as horses, but very hypochondriacal, and Dr.Armstrong of Mulberry Place made a very pleasant little income out of them.
I have mentioned them at length, because they had a great deal to do with Angelina's quiet behaviour.No.21 was not a house that welcomed a child's ringing laughter.

But, in any case, the Misses Braid were not fond of children, but only took Angelina because they had a soft spot in their dry hearts for their brother Jim, and in any case it would have been difficult to say no.
Their attitude to children was that they could not understand why they did not instantly see things as they, their elders, saw them; but then, on the other hand, if an especially bright child did take a grown-up point of view about anything _that_ was considered "forward" and "conceited," so that it was really very difficult for Angelina.
"It's a pity Jim's got such a dull child," Miss Violet would say.

"You never would have expected it." "What I like about a child," said Miss Emmy, "is a little cheerfulness and natural spirit--not all this moping." Angelina was not, on the whole, popular....

The aunts had very little idea of making a house cheerful for a child.

The room allotted to Angelina as a nursery was at the top of the house, and had once been a servant's bedroom.