as stephanie walked toward the ramada , granny hilda noticed that stephanie 's shoulders had squared up with the width of her hips in the way they do when a child is eight and her face had changed so that she no longer resembled her father , but instead favored a great-grandmother on hilda 's side named eustace epping , except with one new front tooth as crooked and lonesome as a ghost town tombstone jutting out over her bottom lip .