![]() ![]() As for Jason Cameron, through his contact with Rosalind, he, too, is renewed. ![]() For her job in the household is to read to him: Latin, French, Greek, German - and she feels herself coming alive once more. Oddest of all is the master of the house: Rosalind never sees him, but communicates only through a speaking tube, and only at night. Despite there being but one servant, the huge house is immaculate and food is prepared and served in the most elegant manner. ![]() Penniless, Rosalind stays despite her misgivings. But when she arrives at Jason Cameron's mansion on a hill overlooking the Pacific, she discovers that there are no children, not even a wife, in residence: just the gentleman himself and his enigmatic manservant. ![]() A boom town in the 1850s, in 1905 San Francisco is the center of culture in the new West, and perhaps there she will rediscover a reason for living. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. Unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. R osalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago. ![]()
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