It is expected of a young lady, that she wait either by the door to her house or on the balcony of her mansion for any sign of a knock on the door or the distant rumbling of a carriage (as is typical of any period novel or movie where the lady of the house is always gasping at the faintest sign of a knock). At any moment a man might come and sweep them off and into marriage. Lady Abigail was now a... 14 year old maiden and her mother thought it imperative that she be married and have children. Abigail was worrying to her mother, as she was the last of her daughters to be wed and soon would be found undesirable. Her sister Chastity, by the age of 12, had already married and bore 16 children and Beatrice, now 13, had been widowed 3 times already. Lady Abigail did have a brother, but he spent his days frolicking in the tulip garden and eyeing naked blacksmiths in the lake. The family kept him in the attic preferred not to mention him. As was expected of a society lady, Abigail was to sit and keep her rapt attention to the door. She was to stare at it endlessly with no interruption whatsoever and at the sign of a knock she was to gasp, make herself presentable, and run to the door. Not too fast though, as it is known by europe's finest doctors that too much exertion on a woman might imbalance her tender humours and cause her brain to hemorrhage.