 Audrey fled and married a Mr Sheridan, an artist friend of her father's, and went with him to New York.He died two years later, but we later learn that he had abandoned her almost immediately after they arrived in America, leaving her penniless.She worked variously as a nurse, a waitress, a dressmaker and on the stage with a touring company, among other things, before an old friend who had learned painting from her father found her work with Elmer Ford, as governess to his son Ogden.