She goes everywhere alone, a short-haired little girl who talks freely to strangers of all kinds-adults and children, bums and street vendors, mysterious women and scowling men. New York City was surely a different place in the 1890s than it is now, but even so many adult readers will doubtless be surprised and perhaps unsettled at the free reign Lucinda's guardians give her. She straps on her roller skates, and wanders the streets of the Capital of the World with the zest of a child.
When Lucinda's parents leave her in New York City to take the Italian air for the sake of her mother's health, the 10-year-old girl sees this not as an occasion of sorrow, but as an opportunity for adventure and new experiences.
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