Crossword-Solution: MCBAIN 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

McBain complained of a headache and vertigo on the morning of the fourteenth; so I laid to until he died, last night.

McBain, generally known to her intimates as "Aunt Eliza," was a connection of Nan's on the paternal side.

McBain and Sandy come to dwell in Cornwall, and since this, their third summer there, had brought his adored Nan Davenant once more to Mallow Court on a lengthy visit, Sandy's cup of joy was filled to the brim.

McBain regarded her offspring from much the same standpoint as does a hen the brood of enterprising ducklings which, owing to some stratagem on the part of the powers that be, have hatched out from the eggs upon which she has been conscientiously sitting in the fond belief that they were those of her own species.

How she and the late Duncan McBain of entirely prosaic memory had contrived to produce more or less of a musical genius by way of offspring she had never been able to fathom.