Thomasina
Proper noun
Meaning
Thomasina
A female given name from Aramaic, a feminine form of Thomas.
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Both his parents, Georg Iserin and Thomasina de Porris, possessed considerable wealth, his father being the town physician.
Chloe reads a newspaper report on the Byron murder theory and then talks about determinism with Valentine, echoing the discussion between Septimus and Thomasina.
Lady Croom enters, complaining to Noakes about the noise of his steam engine ; Thomasina notes that the machine obeys the laws of entropy (which have not yet been formalized ), which describe the universe as winding down.
She has found two letters Septimus wrote in case he should die in the duel: one to Thomasina, is about rice pudding, and the other is a love letter addressed to herself.
Then landscape architect Richard Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom; the three discuss proposed modifications to the gardens, while Thomasina sketches an imaginary hermit on Noakes's technical drawing of the garden.
Hannah and Valentine mention that Thomasina died in a fire on the eve of her seventeenth birthday.