Lina

Lina Broud is Elizabeth Holland's ladies maid, but Miss Elizabeth has been in Paris for the summer. Lina, Will and Elizabeth used to play together when they were younger and Lina's mother was the Holland's nannie and had not made differentiations between them.  Over the summer Lina has been spending a lot of time with Will Keller, the Holland's coachmen and they had grown very close. They have known each other since they were children, and Lina has been in love with him ever since then. They had grown so close over the summer, and the night Elizabeth is returning Lina is going to tell him, but he is distancing himself from her and she doesn't know why. He tells her she should be inside helping Misses Elizabeth and it is dangerous to be out in the stables now that she is home. "Not tonight. You can't be here tonight." (pg 64) She didn't understand what was different about tonight, it was the same as any other and she thought that it was part of the fun. The danger. On her way inside the servant's entrance when a figure wrapped in white silk hurried by her. It was Elizabeth Holland.