sentences:  She dotes on her children and her husband, and has a generous heart - many of her maidservants are down-on-their-luck girls who have been thrown out of other establishments or fallen on hard times.Yet underneath, she has nerves of steel and a ruthlessly logical mind.In "The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog", even Amelia, who is used to women being underestimated, is stunned to read a letter account of Evelyn subduing a burglar in her home with a heavy parasol of the kind Amelia herself carries, and to hear Evelyn proposing a possible solution to the mystery that Amelia herself overlooked.