The abstemious manner in which Greta ate (or rather, didn’t eat) carried over into her personal life. She rarely took the full measure of anything. She grimaced rather than smiled, trilled, rather than laughed. She even took baby steps, as if not to cover too much ground at one time. She was quite striking, but no one ever noticed. Greta never attracted enough light to draw any attention. The tragedy of it all was that it wasn’t her fault. Greta was the unwitting victim of a curse placed on her by a jealous rival. Least that’s what she told herself.