Quotes- What sort of person was Abigal at the beginning of the novel?

Abby spends her adolescence searching for the family ties which she lost thanks to her parents' divorce when she was young. After a chance, fantastic encounter with the original Beatie Bow and her family, Abigail spends the equivalent of several years with the family in 1879, until she saves them from an arson fire started by their traumatized father, Samuel.