# Madame Lintoff — Revolving Lights character guide

> Madame Lintoff in Revolving Lights by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lintoff, Madame

**First appearance:** 0001-revolving-lights

## Snapshot

Madame Lintoff climbs the stairs ahead of Miriam, a small squarish body carrying deep wehmütig Hebrew eyes that have already stopped asking.

## Who they are

Madame Lintoff is the Russian woman whose single glance across a room answers Miriam's too-ready smile and then fades at once, a radiance that promises recognition and withdraws it. She has escaped the confines of her tribe and sex into a European world of ideas, and is weary of it; she looked impersonally, found a blankness, and will not enquire again. She matters because that first revealing encounter closes the way between the two women before a word is spoken, and the evening's dimming begins there.

## In the story

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

Walks with Miriam in silence, contributing to the strained atmosphere; her presence highlights Miriam's sense of alienation.

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