arlotte, Arthur's young female cousin, is a governess at a Bleet.
She is short of money, and in her "in her penniless state she would have
parted with (the pearls) for money. Charlotte is described as both
sensitive and intelligent in the story, and clearly her conscience plays a
large role in her actions about the pearls. She is clearly enamored of the
pearls and wishes to keep them, even noting feeling "a haunting passi
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