​ Poor Isabel. She lost her father and, despite her feelings on this man, she is still asking Benjamin to seek out Eliza to cover the mirrors and stop the clocks. But why is she asking him to do these things?   When I was in New York there was a girl who went to school with me and she had told me that her family was rooted in tradition, so much so that even during a thunderstorm they would cover a mirror. When I asked her why, she said it was to keep the souls that come through a mirror during a