“Mabel is my niece. She was a wonderful girl. In fact, she is a very good girl, just a little, as they say, too. She loved to act out small tragedies and, when upset, could say more than she would like. She married a certain Mr. Denman when she was twenty-two years old. I'm afraid this marriage was not a particularly happy one. I kept hoping that their acquaintance would end in nothing, since Mr. Denman had a very difficult character. He was not the kind of person who would tolerate Mabel's weaknesses. In addition, I learned that there were mentally ill people in his family. But the girls were just as stubborn then as they are now, and they probably always will be. And Mabel married him..."