Sentence:  The monstrous thought of going to the <WSD>Camp Mother</WSD> occurred to her ("Did you hear about Betsy? Went tearing off to old Auntie Jane to say her roommate was missing, and here all the time the poor girl was...") and she spoke to several other people, wondering and curious, phrasing it each time as a sort of casual question; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A woman in charge of housekeeping and the supervision of campers at a summer camp.