# Mademoiselle Simone Vonderaa — Clouds of Witness character guide

> Mademoiselle Simone Vonderaa in Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle Vonderaa, Simone, ma Simone, Simone Vonderaa

**First appearance:** 0016-xiii-manon

## Snapshot

The beautiful, irresistible mistress whose lies Denis Cathcart knew and could not break from—a fatal fascination that outlived his fortune and his life.

## Who they are

Simone Vonderaa enters Cathcart's Paris years as the exquisite continental mistress for whom he keeps a discreet banking account and a devotion he never questions aloud. She lies to him from their earliest acquaintance, and he knows it, yet the knowledge cannot loosen her hold. Her shadow falls across the case as the woman whose demands may have driven a ruined man toward desperate measures.

## In the story

### [XVII: The Eloquent Dead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/clouds_of_witness_se/chapters/xvii-the-eloquent-dead)

Cathcart's mistress, who left him for a wealthy American; her letter to Cathcart prompted his suicide note.

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