# Mrs. Roberts — Short Fiction character guide

> Mrs. Roberts in Short Fiction by Arthur Machen.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0036-the-terror

## Who they are

A woman in the story of the Terror.

## In the story

### [IX: The Light on the Water](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_6_se/chapters/ix-the-light-on-the-water)

Mrs. Roberts, the mother of the dead child, weeps and tells the doctor the children had been playing outside before the tragedy.

### [X: The Child and the Moth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_6_se/chapters/x-the-child-and-the-moth)

Mother of Johnnie; searches for him and discovers his body.

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