The children were left in the care of their Aunt Harriet.

You could meet your Aunt Harriet there and she would see nothing to shock her.

Aunt Harriet's voice sounded as though she had been slapped.

She had some idea of what life in Aunt Harriet's house was going to be like.

"Is it to your Aunt Harriet that you are going?"

Aunt Harriet is cold and distant, just as you said.

"Thank you so very much for all this, Aunt Harriet," she said.

Aunt Harriet would scold her all the time, she knew.

Aunt Harriet gave them so little to eat that they always had to take something else as well.

Or had she gone the way of Aunt Harriet?