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'The first impression of Great-Aunt Dymphna was that she was more like an enormous bird than a great-aunt. This was partly because she wore a black cape, which seemed to flap behind her when she moved. Then her nose stuck out of her thin wrinkled old face just like a very hooked beak. On her head she wore a man's tweed hat beneath which straggled wispy white hair. She wore under the cape a shapeless long black dress. On her feet, in spite of it being a fine warm evening, were rubber boots.
The children gazed at their great-aunt, so startled by her appearance that the polite greetings they would have made vanished from their minds ... Great-Aunt Dymphna had turned her attention to the luggage.
"Clutter, clutter! I could never abide clutter. What have you got in all this?" As she said "this" a rubber boot kicked at the nearest suitcase.'
The Growing Summer, page 45
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