Patience Hurst is the only daughter of Lord and Lady Hurst. Aged sixteen she is the apple of her father's eye and her mother's little darling. She adores her three brothers: Charles, Simon and Crispin although she has reservations about each of them, hoping they will grow up to be respectable young men and follow in their fathers footsteps.
Patience hopes also to marry soon. She has an eye for the boys, like most sixteen year olds, and god willing she’ll be the first of her friends married off.
Flighty and shallow Patience has never had to worry for anything in her life.