# Phyllis — A Bid for Fortune character guide

> Phyllis in A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Phyllis

**First appearance:** 0003-part-i-iii-i-visit-my-relations

## Snapshot

A wealthy merchant's daughter whose hand, fortune, and safety become the prize in a forgery-and-abduction scheme she never sees coming.

## Who they are

She is the reason Hatteras's thoughts turn southward on the voyage home, and the reason a nobleman's proposal is treated as a transaction to be verified with cablegrams and signatures. Her father's wealth makes her a target, and her coachman's battered return after a ball turns her absence into a citywide police search. She is both the emotional center of the early arc and the object that reveals how far Nikola's network has reached into ordinary households.

## In the story

### [II: London](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-ii-london)

Hatteras's sweetheart, meets him at the British Museum, receives a ring, and later appears in a vision crying.

### [VII: Port Said, and What Befell Us There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-vii-port-said-and-what-befell-us-there)

Hatteras's beloved; he thinks of her while departing Naples and looks forward to seeing her in Australia.

### [I: We Reach Australia, and the Result](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-i-we-reach-australia-and-the-result)

Phyllis meets the narrator in Sydney, expresses unhappiness about her father's pressure to marry another man, and later disappears from Government House.

### [II: On the Trail](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-ii-on-the-trail)

Missing; believed to have been taken by the gang, now in Nikola's hands for three hours.

### [Following Up a Clue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-iv-following-up-a-clue)

Phyllis is the missing girl; the informant describes seeing her forced onto a train by two men.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-vi-conclusion)

Now Lady Hatteras, recounts her abduction from the ball and her rescue.

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