# Winnie Medland — Payment Deferred character guide

> Winnie Medland in Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Medland, young Medland

**First appearance:** 0001-ii

## Snapshot

The Marbles' married daughter, brisk and acquisitive, who treats her parents' windfall as a household resource to be spent without apology.

## Who they are

Winnie has left Malcolm Road for the Medland name but returns to extract money from her father with the same persistence she once applied to schoolroom chores. She spends a hundred pounds in an afternoon, bullies her mother into a Christmas feast, and reorganises the house to her own grand standards. Her cheerful rapacity measures how far the Marbles have drifted from their old pinched life.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/i)

The daughter, who earned a scholarship, is scolded by her father and sent to bed early.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/ii)

Sleepily inquires when Mr. Marble enters her bedroom; later sews a button on her glove at breakfast.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/ix)

Returns from school more refined and critical, finds the home decor vulgar, and is grateful for the holiday at the Grand Pavilion Hotel.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xii)

Returns from school as 'Winnie Marble'; beautiful, assertive, spends lavishly, reorganizes the house, then leaves for friends.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xiv)

Leaves the house at the start of the chapter; returns at Easter taller, more beautiful, and with an insolent manner.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xvi)

Inherits twelve hundred a year after Marble's execution.

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