The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Then one night he found that Daisy had pierced holes in little Portia's ears for earrings. And another time a kewpie doll with feather skirts was on the mantlepiece when he came home, and Daisy was gentle and hard and and would not put it away. He knew, too, that Daisy was teaching the children the cult of meekness. She told them all about hell and heaven. Also she convinced them of ghosts and of haunted places. Daisy went to church every Sunday and she talked sorrowfully to the preacher of her own husband. And with her stubbornness she always took the children to the church, too, and they listened.