"If Aunt Kipp would give us the money she is always talking about, instead of waiting till she dies,
we should be so comfortable. She is a dreadful bore, for she lives in such terror of dropping dead
with her heart-complaint that she doesn't take any pleasure in life herself or let any one else; so the
sooner she goes the better for all of us," said Polly, in a desperate tone; for things looked very black
to her just then.