Mary Carryl

What happens next is the part of the story that people tend to skip, and it is worth slowing down for, because nobody gives up.

Eleanor is locked in a room in her family's house, and she gets out, and she walks the miles to Inistioge, and she hides in Sarah's bedroom for days with the help of Sarah's maid, a woman named Mary Carroll, who brings food up the stairs and says nothing to anyone.

Eventually, the families simply run out of arguments.

Eleanor's people agree to a small allowance, far less than she was owed.

A new place.

They will live in it for the rest of their lives.

Mary Carroll, the maid who hid Eleanor and carried food up the stairs, follows them from Ireland.

She will keep house for them for the next thirty years.