Eliza ... had no time to talk, ... yet it was difficult to say what she did.... Three times a day she studied a little book which I found ... was a Common Prayer Book. I asked her once what was the great attraction of that volume, and she said 'the Rubric.' Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth; ... she informed me it was ... for the altar of a new church.... Two hours she devoted to ... working by herself in the kitchen garden. [Cousin Eliza's parterre is also referred to in Chapter IV. of _Jane Eyre_.] Eliza [attended] a saint's-day service at ... church--for in matters of religion she was a rigid formalist: no weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or foul she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-days as there were prayers. And by way of climax, Jane Eyre tells us that Cousin Eliza says:--"I shall devote myself ... to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system; if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil." The river Reed, I may remark, has its rise close to the Cheviot Hills, within about five miles of the source of the Keeldar Burn, which name Charlotte Brontë used later in _Shirley_ for the surname of Shirley Keeldar who, the world knows, is really Emily Brontë. To quote a ballad of Leyden, "The heath-bell blows where Keeldar flows, By Tyne the primrose pale." The Reed has a Rochester near, which doubtless provided a name for Charlotte's hero. Having now the key to this method of Charlotte Brontë, we also discover portrayed in _Jane Eyre_ an utterly neglected sister of Currer Bell in Julia Severn, called after a river. Remembering that Emily Brontë would be younger than Charlotte, we perceive Julia must mean Elizabeth Brontë, born, like Emily, in July. We almost had forgotten this sister was at the Clergy Daughters' School. One of two things was responsible, it seems, for the choice of "Julia": either her natal month or her going to the above school in July. Elizabeth Brontë, the second sister of Charlotte Brontë, was born at Hartshead, near Dewsbury. "Miss Temple," cries Mr. Brocklehurst, "... what--_what_ is that girl with curled hair--red hair, ma'am, curled--curled all over?" "It is Julia Severn," replies Miss Temple quietly, ... "Julia's hair curls naturally."