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The Characters

Wes

He is kindness and generosity itself, this oddly dressed, bespectacled man with his head of tousled curls and his gray-blue eyes. I cannot deny that I am forming an attachment to him, yet Courtney's friends Anna and Paula insist that I be on my guard, for they say that Wes lied to Courtney to protect Frank, the blackguard to whom she was formerly betrothed. It does not seem that anyone with so much goodness in his countenance can be so very bad, but then again, I could have said the same thing about Edgeworth, the man I loved back home.

Even if Wes is indeed as good as I hope, what respectable man would want anything to do with a woman who is ruined? How am I to make sense of a world in which people "have sex" as easily as they have cake, and where such inclinations have little to do with matrimony? With only the words of Miss Austen and the incomprehensible rules of Courtney's "self-help" books to guide me, I cannot help but wonder if I would be better off in my own time. That is, if returning is even a possibility.