`` Well , and what do you think of dear Aunt Eliza ? '' asked Dan . `` S-s-s-sh , '' warned Cecily , with a glance at the half-open hall door . `` Pshaw , '' scoffed Dan , `` she ca n't hear us . There ought to be a law against anyone being as deaf as that . '' `` She 's not so old-looking as I expected , '' said Felix . `` If her hair was n't so white she would n't look much older than your mother . '' `` You do n't have to be very old to be a great-aunt , '' said Cecily . `` Kitty Marr has a great-aunt who is just the same age as her mother . I expect it was burying so many husbands turned her hair white . But Aunt Eliza does n't look just as I expected she would either . '' `` She 's dressed more stylishly than I expected , '' said Felicity . `` I thought she 'd be real old-fashioned , but her clothes are n't too bad at all . '' `` She would n't be bad-looking if ` twere n't for her nose , '' said Peter . `` It 's too long , and crooked besides . '' `` You need n't criticize our relations like that , '' said Felicity tartly . `` Well , are n't you doing it yourselves ? '' expostulated Peter . `` That 's different , '' retorted Felicity . `` Never you mind Great-aunt Eliza 's nose . ''
`` Well , do n't XXXXX me to talk to her , '' said Dan , '' 'cause I wo n't . ''
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