# Lady Anne Egbert — Short Fiction character guide

> Lady Anne Egbert in Short Fiction by Saki.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lady Anne, Egbert, Albert, Nan

**First appearance:** 0022-the-reticence-of-lady-anne

## Snapshot

A woman of formidable reserve whose refusal to explain herself turns a simple misunderstanding into a tangle of wounded pride and speculation.

## Who they are

Lady Anne Egbert occupies that peculiar English position where silence is read as either dignity or disdain, and she offers no clue which. Her reticence is not shyness but a kind of armor, and it frustrates the people around her who need her to be legible. She matters because the comedy of the story turns on the gap between what she means and what everyone else decides she must mean.

## In the story

### [The Reticence of Lady Anne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-reticence-of-lady-anne)

Sits rigidly silent in the drawing-room after a quarrel; remains unresponsive to Egbert's appeals; is later discovered to have been dead for two hours.

### [The Easter Egg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-easter-egg)

A brave woman of good fighting stock, mother of Lester Slaggby, who faces her son's cowardice with courage and love. She is blinded and scarred in the Easter egg explosion.

### [The Blind Spot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-blind-spot)

Sir Lulworth's nephew and the executor of great-aunt Adelaide's estate; he discovers the Canon's letter and tries to present it as evidence against the cook Sebastien.

### [Laura](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/laura)

Amanda's husband; his poultry and garden are repeatedly ravaged by the otter, and he is later tormented by a Nubian boy in Cairo.

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