![]() "Along the dark blue collar I'd stitched twining leaves, gillyflowers, and hummingbirds in gold and black. All three are skilled needlewomen who sew and embroider rich clothing for gentlefolk. Grace and her girls have one link with the great city of London where Queen Elizabeth and her court reside. And it's by God's good sense, Grace says, I never knew him, for he was the greatest scoundrel the world has yet seen." Kat wonders why she - not Grace's own daughter, fey, deaf Anna - has won most of Grace's affection. "I never knew my mother, the mother that birthed me. "The stolen one" is Katherine "Kat" Bab, a country girl of sixteen with hair "red as the good Queen Elizabeth's." She may not have been born a country girl. ![]()
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