Jeanet Evans is inclined to feel misunderstood. She likes to wear flamboyant dresses and of course large hats from her own shop, but cannot really find what she wants in Bridbury. She only gets on really well with Elisabeth Waynes, the wife of John Andrew Waynes, the dentist, but after all her husband is a doctor! To add to her collection of hats she takes the train to London once a month, then stationmaster Hank Waltham always makes sure that she has an entire compartment to herself, so she can travel like a queen.

Her husband has nothing to do with her shop, but earns a bit here and there chopping Christmas trees for Pat Hackney of "Pat's X-mas Trees", carrying for "Gary's Greengrocery" or antique merchant Harry Darton or as iron worker for farrier Frank Cobham. She secretly would have preferred a husband with a noble profession such as Jonathan Bexley who is Bridbury’s bank manager, or perhaps Francis Harrow, who as photographer at least has an artistic profession. But young girls in love are blind and Steven had those funny dimples in his cheeks so she fell madly in love with the sturdy boy. Actually deep in her heart she still likes him, except when he once again drinks a few pints at the “St. George's Pub" run by Bobby Taylor. She is truly happy when she drinks tea on a week-day afternoon at the back of her shop with Elisabeth Waynes and Maggie Redbridge, the wife of the mayor of Bridbury, then at least serious matters are discussed!