Miss Crane is a young woman, just out of school, and returned to Paiute Springs to teach, having grown up there. Miss Crane is a highly educated and a little on the scandalous side—she sometimes wears trousers when she works the flower beds around the schoolhouse. She is a kind mistress and patient with the children. Her family has passed on—she was only child and her mother and father died during the Simpkins Terror. Miss Crane lives at Mamie McDaniel’s boarding house.