<br />The Bunner Sisters (1892) takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square&#39;s &#39;female population&#39;. Ann Eliza gives Evelina a clock for her birthday. The clock leads the sisters to become involved with Herbert Ramy, owner of &#39;the queerest little store you ever laid eyes on&#39;. Soon Ramy is a regular guest of the Bunner sisters, who realize that their &#39;treadmill routine&#39;, once so comfortable, is now &#39;intolerably monotonous&#39;.