New Beginnings

[Isotta Ellesborough]

• “Isotta Ellesborough,” the young girl replied with a perfunctory curtsey.
  
  She was quite pleased to hear that Mr. Prewett knew where this ‘Bartonburg’ place was. She very much doubted that Hogsmeade would be half so grand as some of the places she had visited in her eleven years, but even small villages could be difficult to navigate if one did not know where they were going.
  
  “I should think I can find the house quite easily if you’ll be so kind as to show me to the neighborhood,” Isotta added brightly. Now that he had proved himself friendly and useful, she had made up her mind to be very pleasant to him indeed.