Cecily 's a dear . So is Uncle Alec ; and Aunt Janet is pretty nice , too . '' `` What is Aunt Olivia like ? '' asked Felix . `` Aunt Olivia is very pretty . She is just like a pansy -- all velvety and purply and goldy . '' Felix and I SAW , somewhere inside of our heads , a velvet and purple and gold pansy-woman , just as the Story Girl spoke . `` But is she NICE ? '' I asked . That was the main question about grown-ups . Their looks mattered little to us . `` She is lovely . But she is twenty-nine , you know . That 's pretty old . She does n't bother me much . Aunt Janet says that I 'd have no bringing up at all , if it was n't for her . Aunt Olivia says children should just be let COME up -- that everything else is settled for them long before they are born . I do n't understand that . Do you ? '' No , we did not .
But it was our experience that grown-ups had a habit of saying things hard XXXXX understand .
Cecily about at before for grown-ups if like that to