After her parents deaths, and her brothers departure for America, Jemima had no choice but to make a new life for herself. Since she wasnt trained for anything, that wasnt going to be easy. On the whole, she realized she had been very lucky to be taken on as companion-help to Lady Manderly, yet Jemima knew that her life was somehow unsatisfactory, and she felt unfulfilled. Such thoughts might, of course, have something to do with Lady Manderlys nephewProfessor Alexander Cator!,
