Blue Hand · Character

Jane Groat

Old Jane Groat, daughter of the man who owned Kennett Hall, loved a Spanish marquis in her youth and now watches her son Digby with something like dread.

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Also known as old Jane Groat, Poor old Jane

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Revealed as a kleptomaniac; cowers under her son's threats and flees the room.

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Jane Groat grew up at Kennett Hall as Danton's daughter, and her old friend Mrs. Weatherwale still keeps the letters from the days she fell in love with a Spanish man. She is now Mrs. Groat, mother of Digby, and her signature is required on documents she may not fully understand. Her past holds the key to the Danton inheritance, and her present silence — or complicity — is one of the story's quietest and most troubling puzzles.

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Escalation
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Aftermath
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IV
Revealed as a kleptomaniac; cowers under her son's threats and flees the room.
Chapter XVI
Sits by the window, bitter and fearful of Digby. She is forced to tell Eunice the will was made during a lapse of memory, hiding her hatred.
XXI
Sits bolt upright and reacts convulsively to the news of the blue hand, then collapses.
XXIII
Dictates a secret letter to Mary Weatherwale; suffers a collapse after the confrontation.
XXV
Implied to hold the key to the mystery; Jim suspects her involvement in the disappearance of Lady Mary's daughter.
XXVII
Mentioned as the source of the letter about the baby's burn and disappearance.
XXXIV
Revealed to have framed Lady Mary for shoplifting, taken morphine, and caused the death of Jonathan Danton by revealing the baby's death.

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