Lise

Lise, who is more or less in years, in trying to render a young woman ridiculous, has changed so much as to become frightful.

"Madame la marquise has not been out this morning, monsieur," replied Mlle. Lise, the maid.

Janet and Lise would be growing up, there would be young men, and no place to see them save the sidewalks.

Still rankling in Hannah's memory was a day when Lise had returned from school, dark and mutinous, with a tale of such a family.

Even after Janet and Lise had gone to work the household never seemed to gain that margin of safety for which Hannah yearned.