| She is nineteen and has a quiet fear that she may be on the brink of spinsterhood, in spite of her fair countenance of brown eyes and brown hair with wispy curls. Yet, there are days when her fear is overpowered by the independence she feels in working with her aunts in their millinery shop. She was apprenticed to them by her father who is the head law clerk in her maternal grandfather's soliciting firm. Her mother was her grandfather's youngest daughter and died when she gave birth to Clara who recently became another apprentice in the shop. |
