Who is Love Simpson from Cold Sassy Tree and what is their importance?

Love Simpson is employed in Blakeslee's store as a hat maker (milliner). Love is described as pretty, fashionable, private, and visionary. When Grandpa Blakeslee proposes, she doesn't accept his proposal out of love, but rather, because she wants a home.... someplace to call her own. Over the course of the novel, Love comes to love her husband in the way he deserves.