Jackson Brown is a young man who lived in the same town as Belinda and Melissa. Although Melissa had a crush on him, Jackson had a crush on Belinda. When Jackson leaves the town to go to medical school, he writes Belinda for awhile but Belinda soon discourages the long distance relationship. When Jackson returns of the town's doctor, he expects to be able to pick up their relationship where he believed they had left off, but Belinda does not want to do so. It is partially because of pressure that she believes that Jackson is putting on her to make a commitment to him that she takes the opportunity to go to Boston with Mrs. Stafford-Smyth.
