Shannon Costello

Two quotes:

1)  Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie. (10)

2) “Doesn’t she make a noise?  Hasn’t she made a scene?”

“She is not scenic.”

“I thought a lovelorn maiden was always scenic.”

A ridiculous widow is more so.  Lavinia has made me a speech; she thinks me very arbitrary.”

“She has a talent for always being in the wrong,” said Mrs. Almond. (80)