# Vera Durmot — Short Fiction character guide

> Vera Durmot in Short Fiction by Saki.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Vera

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

## Snapshot

A young woman of vivid imagination whose storytelling instincts make her a natural — and unreliable — presence in any amateur production.

## Who they are

Vera belongs to the drawing-room set that turns a Greek play into a social battlefield, and her imaginative streak sets her apart from the more literal-minded company. Where others merely learn lines, she inhabits them, which makes her both an asset and a hazard to Clovis's staging. Her flair for narrative shapes how the household understands its own dramas, blurring the line between performance and life.

## In the story

### [The Open Window](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-open-window)

The self-possessed fifteen-year-old niece who invents a ghost story to amuse herself at Framton's expense.

### [The Lull](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-lull)

The sixteen-year-old niece who fabricates a flood to keep Latimer from politics, placing a pig and a gamecock in his room.

### [A Touch of Realism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/a-touch-of-realism)

The sixteen-year-old flapper who, with Cyril Skatterly, abandons the Klammersteins on Slogberry Moor as part of their character impersonation.

### [The Quince Tree](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-quince-tree)

The narrator who invents a story about stolen jewels to prevent Betsy Mullen from being evicted.

### [The Almanac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-almanac)

Proposes the idea of a local almanac and discusses its predictions with Clovis.

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