I feel protective of these characters, Caroline in the present day, Nella and Eliza in the 17-1800s. Every one of them, these women and the girl-child had their worlds utterly upturned and in essence destroyed. But the rose out of the ashes, reborn and this is the part I wanted more off, especially regarding Eliza.

The Lost Apothecary could be Nella or even her mother or quite possibly the apothecary Nella would have been without that tragic sequence of events in her life. But I also feel as though Eliza is for all intents and purposes, an apothecary and man was she brave and lost to history in essence.