May Sutton fanned the flames. "Isn't that just the truth? She's always undermining me in front of the Quillans. She wasn't like this when she first arrived—so obedient and sensible. Now that she thinks she's landed a good family, she's gotten full of herself.
"We used to say we could count on her to take care of us in our old age. But look at her now. We'll be lucky if she doesn't drive us to an early grave."
In just a few sentences, she erased all of Cecilia Adler's contributions and accused her of being ungrateful, completely oblivious to her own faults.
