CHAPTER THREEJacoba was impressed by the bedroom the housekeeper took her into and with what she saw of the rest of the house.
Her father had often talked about the grand houses that there were in Mayfair.
She knew that he had been asked to dinner in some of them and had attended balls and parties with his brother.
But when they grew so poor, she felt that she would never see any of the places he had talked about.
Now she looked around.
She wanted to remember the heavily canopied bed, the pictures on the walls and the thick carpet under her feet as well as the large dressing table with its three mirrors and a candelabrum of silver cupids on either side of it that was beautiful.
Her trunks were brought upstairs and she told the housemaid which one she wanted unpacked.
Among the gowns
