'Well, darling, perhaps you're right, but you must always think of
Devonshire if you do.'
Aunt Amelia said she didn't know what his dear, dead mother would say,
after the Christian upbringing he had had, too. Daddy seemed inclined
to lose his temper again and remarked that a certain kind of Christian
upbringing was only another name for spiritual slavery. Aunt Amelia
threw up her hands and said 'Shocking.' Then father whispered to mother
that if Aunt Amelia didn't return to Hampstead soon he'd have to go into
lodgings! He always says that if he's worried.
General conversation is apt to languish in Aunt Amelia's presence and to
come back like a boomerang to some exhausting topic that most people
never discuss. She understands father better now and thinks he's 'one
of the right sort' because he happens to be an Evangelical, but she says
he is 'dangerously charitable,' and always tries to find out if he's
_really_ sound on the subject of candles.