Edward was still opaque.
Edward is called opaque due to his inability to let his feelings show. He was a very quiet child and had learned at a very young age how adults are not interested in the things children do and the punishments they can inflict on children for not adhering to their rules. Thus, Edward became a very quiet child who kept to himself.
She had seen the devil there.
Mrs. Mullen was convinced that Leonora’s rudeness and violent behavior was not due to her being spoilt by her mother, but due to her being possessed by the Devil. She was a very religious woman who did not like children at all. Whatever experience she had with children, she had not seen a child as spoilt as Leonora and to her Leonora was the Devil incarnate.
Everyone was bubbling over.
The summer at Iyot house when Edward and Leonora spent their childhood was severe. Due to the intense heat, it felt as if everything was getting scorched as boiling water does. It felt as if everything was bubbling due to the intense heat.
China was cold as cold
The china doll that Aunt Kestrel got for Leonora was rejected by her in the most violent way. After she left, Edward carried it to his room. As he touched the doll, he felt as if the China doll was as cold as the ultimate description of the word cold.
Dolly lay still in her tissue paper shroud.
After Edward decides to bury the doll to avoid hearing its cries every night, he begins to imagine that the tissue paper in which the doll was wrapped was a actually a shroud meant for a small child.
