That night whilst in bed sipping her coffee, Rebecca began to make rough sketches on her note pad. She knew what she wanted to create but getting her designs exactly right was proving to be a problem. She worked through to the dawn sketching and changing her ideas. By daylight, she had completed six designs but wanted many more.
This was about the time that well off families, Merchants, Bankers, investors, would employ young imported black men as house boys. They were things of high status. According to Rebecca's diary, the lady of the house would very often call on their services during the night when the master was away.
Noah was working on an idea which proved to be very much in demand. He simply added different scents to the liquid wax and created scented candles. Simple and ingenious. The stench from the river Thames was unbearable as it was the hottest summer for many years.
The demand was such that Rebecca worked by night and Noah by day just to keep up with the demand. The summertime soon passed and the Autumn duly arrived. The scented candles were no longer in big demand because the colder weather reduced the stench from the Thames.
The time had come for Rebecca to discuss her new designs. But, would they work? Noah was a simple illiterate candlestick maker but he liked what Rebecca explained to him. If her ideas worked a lot of money would come into the business. Over the next couple of nights, Noah made the moulds and produced the first of the designs.
Once it had set hard she tried it out and was rather pleased with the result. After several nights Noah had produced no less than twelve rather strange looking shapes all to Rebecca's designs. Mrs, Cohen a well know socialite was a regular customer at the shop and often spent time talking to Rebecca who was well below her social standing.
In the back room laid out on an old wooden table were the twelve hard wax designs covered with a linen cloth. Rebecca put the closed sign up on the shops' entrance door and guided Mrs, Cohen into the back room. Her heart must have been racing because of what she was about to do. Then the unthinkable happened?