# Mrs. Cardinal — Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance character guide

> Mrs. Cardinal in Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance by Mark Rutherford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cardinal, himself

**First appearance:** 0003-i-newspapers

## Who they are

A minor character, possibly a neighbor or acquaintance.

## In the story

### [V: What It All Came To](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/v-what-it-all-came-to)

A Yorkshire commercial traveller, broad-shouldered and passionate, who reads indiscriminately and applies fantastical motives to business, causing instability. His marriage is loveless and his wife is intensely jealous.

### [V: What It All Came To](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/v-what-it-all-came-to)

Cardinal's wife, dark-haired, pinched-up, thin-lipped, chronically miserable, and pathologically jealous despite caring little for her husband.

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