`` Who ever told you that ? '' exclaimed Dan . `` Aunt Olivia . And I 've heard ma teasing father about it , too . Of course , it was before father got acquainted with mother . '' `` Why did n't your father marry her ? '' I asked . `` Well , she just simply would n't marry him in the end . She got over being in love with him . I guess she was pretty fickle . Aunt Olivia said father felt awful about it for awhile , but he got over it when he met ma . Ma was twice as good-looking as Agnes Clark . Agnes was a sight for freckles , so Aunt Olivia says . But she and father remained real good friends . Just think , if she had married him we would have been the children of the Governor 's wife . '' `` But she would n't have been the Governor 's wife then , '' said Dan . `` I guess it 's just as good being father 's wife , '' declared Cecily loyally . `` You might think so if you saw the Governor , '' chuckled Dan . `` Uncle Roger says it would be no harm to worship him because he does n't look like anything in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or the waters under the earth . '' `` Oh , Uncle Roger just says that because he 's on the opposite side of politics , '' said Cecily .
`` The XXXXX is n't really so very ugly .
Agnes Cecily Clark Dan Governor Ma Olivia Roger end friends