Apple from Eve, chapter 4

I removed the jolie laide tag from a post a few days ago. Euphemia is supposedly too plump, and her mouth is too wide, but a Spaniard meets her and tells her she's beautiful almost before saying hello. So the jury's out on her looks.
Diana and Euphemia get to Spain, and it's a dreary time for Euphemia. Diana's aunt (with whom they are staying) is languid and boring, and her continual dieting means that Euphemia rarely gets quite enough to eat. Diana complains a lot, and has to be encouraged to swim even a short distance in the pool. Euphemia isn't given any time off, though she's supposed to have some time to herself every day. One morning she starts off for town, both to sightsee and to do errands for Diana, but as she is leaving the house she finds a small boy who has been hit by a car. She takes him back to the house, in hopes that Diana and her aunt will help out, but Diana's aunt is horrified by the idea of a small unwashed boy in her house. She even suggests that "They're tough, these peasants, he'll get over it if you put him by the side of the lane - anyhow, someone will find him" (p. 83). So Euphemia trudges off again with the unconscious and increasingly heavy child - and Tane pulls up in a taxi.