A young woman of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She muses on the aspects of her life that are driving her away. Her mother has died as has one of her older brothers, while her other older brother is working away from home. She fears that her father will beat her as he used to beat her brothers, and she has little loyalty for her sales job. She has fallen for a sailor named Frank who promises to take her with him to Buenos Aires. Before leaving to meet Frank, she hears an organ-grinder outside, which reminds her of a melody that played on an organ on the day her mother died and the promise she made to her mother to look after the home. At the dock where she and Frank are ready to embark on a ship together, Eveline was unable to make a decision because of the offsetting pulls of her past at home and her future with Frank. Eveline is deeply conflicted and makes the painful decision to not leave with him.
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Before leaving to meet Frank, she hears an organ-grinder outside, which reminds her of a melody that played on an organ on the day her mother died and the promise she made to her mother to look after the home.
At the dock where she and Frank are ready to embark on a ship together, Eveline is deeply conflicted and makes the painful decision to not leave with him.
Eveline Kenney, a third generation San Franciscan, was born September 19, 1912, to Sidonie Caroline Mouze, a native of France who'd come to San Francisco as a young girl, and Louis Adophe Mouze, a San Franciscan of French descent whose family settled in the city in the late 1840s.
Eveline's family moved to Berkeley not long after she was born, and she grew up and went to public schools there.
Eveline was active in scouting and PTA activities when her children were in school, in charitable and social groups associated with SF's French community, and in the alumnae chapter of Delta Zeta sorority.
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