# Miss Pillenger — Short Fiction character guide

> Miss Pillenger in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the demon Pillenger

**First appearance:** 0000-when-papa-swore-in-hindustani

## Snapshot

A glacial, businesslike secretary to Mr. Meggs, the last in a long line of women who refused to be bored out of his dreary hometown.

## Who they are

Miss Pillenger is Mr. Meggs's secretary and typist, a self-described business woman whose dignity is always drawn back like a clenched fist against any male who oversteps. Where her predecessors fled the tedium of Mr. Meggs's village and his interminable butterfly lectures, she has stayed six years for five pounds a week, unmoved by romance or scenery. Her icy composure makes her a comic counterweight to whatever schemes or suitors the story throws at her employer.

## Relationships

### [Unhappy Mr. Meggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/unhappy_mr_meggs)

_psychological_

Miss Pillenger and Unhappy Mr. Meggs have a tense, possibly manipulative dynamic, with Mr. Meggs as the victim.

### [Unhappy Mr. Meggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/unhappy_mr_meggs)

_psychological_

Miss Pillenger and Unhappy Mr. Meggs have a tense, possibly manipulative dynamic, with Mr. Meggs as the victim.

### [Unhappy Mr. Meggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/unhappy_mr_meggs)

_psychological_

Miss Pillenger and Unhappy Mr. Meggs have a tense, possibly manipulative dynamic, with Mr. Meggs as the victim.

## In the story

### [A Sea of Troubles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/a-sea-of-troubles)

Mr. Meggs's secretary, who takes his letters to post and is pursued by him in a public spectacle.

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