'let millie dear and belle have that house and carlotta , ' stella told the real estate agent pierce laughed at everything stella said antha , a thin seven-year-old with porcelain skin and soft blue eyes , stood about clutching a giant teddy bear they all went to lunch together , including the real estate agent , who told dandrich later , 'she is charming , absolutely charming i think those people up on first street are merely too gloomy for her ' as for nancy mayfair , the dumpy little girl adopted at birth by mary beth and introduced to everyone as antha 's sister , stella paid no attention to her at all one mayfair descendant says bitterly that nancy was no more than 'a pet ' to stella but there is no evidence of stella 's ever being mean to nancy indeed , she charged truckloads of clothes and toys for nancy .