Linnea had misgivings about spending Christmas with the Orbits and wished she had not had to promise. Everybody knew Mrs. Orbit did not even set a Christian table for her own family, but let them help themselves at any hour of the day or night to bakery bread, eggs, coffee, cheese or whatever they could find. Not only that, she was renowned for her poor housekeeping, and when all the other ladies were in the midst of Spring Housecleaning or Fall Housecleaning, Mrs. Orbit wasn't in the midst of anything except a book called Ethelyn's Mistake or The Lost Heir of Linlithgow or Spectre Lover.
--From The Peaceable Kingdom
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