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Splendid seems an odd word to use . '' `` It 's the one that suits Ethel Hayward best of all . Anything else would be too commonplace . When I think what her life is - the endless struggle to make both ends meet - work morning , noon , and night - and on the top of it all the brother she adores a helpless , suffering invalid , it quite overawes me . If she were bitter and complaining it would be different , but she is nearly always cheerful and hopeful and ready to think of some one else 's troubles . And yet she is n't goody-goody - nor what one describes as `` worthy ' ; she 's just human through and through . '' `` She sometimes seems to me a little severe , '' he said .