And evidently Aunt Philippa had taken an unholy joy in finding it out . `` I dare say some of our own ancestors deserved to go to the penitentiary , even if they never did , '' I remarked . `` Who is that woman driving past , Aunt Philippa ? She must have been very pretty once . '' `` She was -- and that was all the good it did her . ` Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain , ' Ursula . She was Sarah Pyatt and she married Fred Proctor . He was one of your wicked , fascinating men . After she married him he give up being fascinating but he kept on being wicked . That 's the men for you . Her sister Flora were n't much luckier . Her man was that domineering she could n't call her soul her own . Finally he could n't get his own way over something and he just suicided by jumping into the well . A good riddance -- but of course the well was spoiled . Flora could never abide the thought of using it again , poor thing . That 's men for you . `` And there 's that old Enoch Allan on his way to the station . He 's ninety if he 's a day . You ca n't kill some folks with a meat axe . His wife died twenty years ago .
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