Eliza also meets the Sommerses’ brother, John, a sea captain, who brings intriguing gifts when he returns from his voyages.
However, in the kitchen with Mama Fresia, Eliza runs barefooted, speaks a mixture of Spanish and Mapuche (an indigenous South American language), listens to Indian legends, and learns how to cook. Under Rose’s influence, Eliza dresses like a duchess, speaks English, sings, dances, and reluctantly learns to play the piano. Rose informs Eliza of her fine English lineage, while Mama Fresia, Rose’s cook, tells Eliza that her heritage is Chilean Indian. Brought up by Rose, a spinster, and Rose’s merchant brother, Jeremy, who immigrated to Chile from England, Eliza learns two different stories about her ancestry. She was abandoned as a baby on the doorstep of the home of Jeremy and Rose Sommers in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1832.
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