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The Characters

Courtney

This is the lady whose life I have inherited, a lady whose blond hair and round form is of a style of beauty that I have always wished were my own. Yet this lady may not be a lady at all, if I am to judge by her pursuits, her situation in life, and her lack of servants. Worse still is the fact that she ruined herself with the man she was to have married, yet refused to marry him.

And yet--this is the lady whose life is now my own, whose history is now my history. Is not her choice to refuse a marriage that would bring her respectability without happiness one that many ladies of my time wished that they could make? And can the gulf between us be as wide as I believe it must be if she has a passion for the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility?