We felt it was time you children needed—well, it’s like this, Scout,Atticus said.
Your aunt’s doing me a favor as well as you all. I can’t stay here all day with you, and the summer’s going to be a hot one.
“Yes sir,” I said, not understanding a word he said.
I had an idea, however, that Aunt Alexandra’s appearance on the scene was not so much Atticus’s doing as hers.
Aunty had a way of declaring What Is Best For The Family, and I suppose her coming to live with us was in that category.
Maycomb welcomed her. Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;
Miss Stephanie Crawford had long visits with Aunt Alexandra, consisting mostly of Miss Stephanie shaking her head and saying, “Uh, uh, uh.”
Miss Rachel next door had Aunty over for coffee in the afternoons,
and Mr. Nathan Radley went so far as to come up in the front yard and say he was glad to see her.
When she settled in with us and life resumed its daily pace, Aunt Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us.
Her Missionary Society refreshments added to her reputation as a hostess (she did not permit Calpurnia to make the delicacies
required to sustain the Society through long reports on Rice Christians); she joined and became Secretary of the Maycomb Amanuensis Club.
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