In Gaskell's Words: Miss Phoebe Browning Long as his ride had been that day, [Mr. Gibson] called on the Miss Brownings in the evening, to arrange about Molly's accompanying them to the Towers. They were tall handsome women, past their first youth, and inclined to be extremely complacent to the widowed doctor. until he had made Aimée his wife. Wives and Daughters Chapter I, The Dawn Of A Gala Day