# Horrocks — Short Fiction character guide

> Horrocks in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Horrocks

**First appearance:** 0024-the-cone

## Snapshot

The wronged husband whose jealousy curdles into something far stranger, he turns a literary man's romantic folly into a quiet, domestic nightmare.

## Who they are

Horrocks is the husband standing between Aubrey Vair and the girl Vair has decided to love, a man whose presence transforms a drawing-room flirtation into a moral trap. His jealousy is not theatrical but methodical, and his willingness to keep his wife close while he watches Vair squirm gives the story its uneasy, clenched feeling. He matters because he forces the reader to ask whether Vair's 'genius' is a passion or just a convenient excuse, and because his patience makes him more frightening than any outburst could.

## In the story

### [The Cone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-cone)

Horrocks is the ironmaster and husband of Mrs. Horrocks. He discovers his wife's infidelity and, masking his fury, leads Raut to the dangerous cone of the blast furnace.

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