A short while back, somebody had recommended to them castor oil as the best specific for bringing on departed hair.

They were inoffensive in mind and manners, rather simple, somewhat affected and very vain, quarrelling with no person under the sun, except Sibylla.

Sibylla was the plague of their lives.

So many years younger than they, they had petted her and indulged her as a child, until at length the child became their mistress.

Sibylla was rude and ungrateful, would cast scornful words at them and call them "old maids," with other reproachful terms.