Patience is a little younger then her being 16 but is always up for a two-faced friendship. She's the daughter of Lord Hurst and an incurable gossip who wants to get married and is quite happy to back stab her friends to get what she wants and make snide remarks.
I also play Fabian Burnbridge might also know Claire as he's from the upper classes, his Uncle is the Earl of Carmarthen. He's a sickly ill boy who's often forbidden from leaving the house. She might be allowed to visit him as part of her Christian charity.