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Susan Delgado A beautiful sixteen-year-old girl from Hambry, in the Barony of Mejis - daughter of the late drover Pat Delgado, niece of the watchful and resentful Cordelia, and the unwilling subject of the arrangement her aunt has brokered to make her Mayor Thorin's gilly in exchange for the return of her family's land and horses. When she falls deeply and improbably in love with the stranger from Gilead now lodging at the Bar K, the arrangement she had reluctantly accepted becomes one she has neither the temperament nor the patience to honour quietly any longer. Brave, intelligent, and unwilling to be a small character in someone else's story, Susan is one of the most fully alive figures the series gives the reader. | Member |
Susan Delgado's aunt and guardian, a thin, disapproving woman who brokered Susan's arrangement with Mayor Thorin and considers the resulting financial security ample compensation for whatever moral compromises were involved in producing it. Cordelia manipulated her young niece into accepting the gilly compact through a careful sequence of tears, appeals to Susan's dead father's memory, and gentle reminders of who would otherwise be turned out of the house. She grows steadily more bitter and quarrelsome with Susan as the arrangement progresses, and the household begins to take on the atmosphere of a long, slow, polite siege.
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