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When first presented in Chapters IV and Chapter V, Q emphasises her foreignness. She sings French airs to a stringed instrument, sports chestnut curls and has a golden box of sweet-smelling herbs or spices hanging on a chain from her neck. Marvel is quickly and superficially seduced by her unique charms. He eventually declares his love some months later in the hold of the Godsend, when they are escaping by boat from Bristol. She greets it with a laugh.
Unfortunately, the character develops little after the dramatic opening in the Three Cups. With her capture by the Parliamentarians at Launceston on the 18 January (Chapter X), she disappears from the text and apparently from Jack Marvel’s mind. It is not until later, when Marvel is conversing with Hannibal Tingcomb at Gleys on the 15 May, that her name reappears, and not until Chapter XVII, that she reappears in person. At the close of the novel she returns to Morlaix and it is clear that she will marry none but Jack Marvel – who rides away to rejoin the regiment of Sir Bevil Grenville.