She was very old and spent most of the day in bed and the rest in a wheel chair

Mrs. Dubose

"Mrs Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall. She was very old; she spent most of each day in bed and the rest of it in a wheel-chair. It was rumoured that she kept a C.S.A. pistol concealed among her numerous shawls and wraps."