The following snippet is taken from
Dead Set Delphinia
Book 11 in the multi-author series,
Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs
…But,
you see, miss. I worry about my sister, Kate. Da said it was time Ma stopped
coddling her with learning reading and writing and her figures, and he made her
go into service to bring more money into the family. Only, Kate is pretty, much
prettier than me. She’s working for the Van Cleets now, but I worry if they’re
letting her go and she gets in a family with a husband or older sons with a
roving eye…” Annie hesitated and searched Delphinia’s face for a reaction.
“You’re worried she’ll be subjected to
unwanted attention like our former maid received from my brother, or you
received from my fiancée. Go on.”
“I was thinking, miss, my sister can
write letters. If I could give her this woman’s name and address, maybe this
woman could help her find the right man for a husband, one who’d be good to her
and send for her to marry him. It could give her a better life than one being
in service here in the city where one of the men in the family she works for
might take advantage. It would get her out of the misery that is lower east
Manhattan.”
Delphinia knew a little about the
neighborhood Annie mentioned. It was the Irish pit of poverty, crime and
despair. Any decent person living there would wish to escape to something
better. She kept her voice even as she replied. “You stole one of my letters,
and you saw me burn two of them the day my mother first locked me into this
room. What makes you think I have a way to contact this person?”
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