" She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with Jane and Mrs. Cupp were a pleasure to her. The Cupps were neither gossiping nor intrusive, and she felt as if they were her friends. Once when she had been ill for a week she remembered suddenly realising that "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Making of a Marchioness + The Shuttle (2 Unabridged Classic Romances)