Summary

In Chapter 11, which continues Violet’s story, Violet asked her nanny if her mother’s last name was Weyward. The nanny warned Violet it was dangerous to go digging into the past.

While Violet’s father was gone to pick Frederick up from the train station she searched his study for information about her mother. She found a crow’s feather and a handkerchief with the initials “EW” on it in the back of a desk drawer. When she smelled the faint hint of lavender from the handkerchief, she remembered her mother’s dark hair.

Violet tried to force herself to believe her father had kept these items because they were special to him, but could not reconcile that with the hatred she had heard in her father’s voice when he suggested that he did not want Violet to turn out...