Summary

In Chapter 3, Emmy borrowed a dress from her mother’s wardrobe. She remembered her mother had worn the dress two years ago when she was hired for a job as a kitchen maid for a rich widow. Emmy remembered the dress because her nana had been teaching her to embroider when mum came out wearing the dress. After her mother left, nana asked Emmy if mum ever said where her clothes came from, something Emmy had never considered. When mum returned an hour later, nana seemed surprised and shocked that mum had been hired for the job. When nana made a snide comment, mum had gone to the door, opened it and demanded her mother leave. Nana had given Emmy her wooden box of embroidery floss before she left. Nana had died four months later. Emmy never understood what her mother...