Short Fiction · Character
Pots O'Money Owen Bentley
A former cricketer turned bank clerk, sweating through a Victorian father's interview with the stage-fright of a man facing his own doom.
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Also known as Owen, Pots
First appearance: when papa swore in hindustani
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Owen is the protagonist, a bank clerk and former actor who is denied permission to marry Audrey due to his low income.
Owen Bentley, once a Middlesex batsman briefly recruited for a musical-comedy chorus, now earns under two hundred pounds at the London and Suburban Bank and wants to marry Audrey Sheppherd. Her father, a heavy father out of a three-volume novel, receives him with bleak disapproval, and Owen endures it with the same sinking sensation he knew on stage. His modest prospects and one influential uncle set up a courtship comedy about money, pride, and the arithmetic of consent.
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