# Mary MacLean — Simon character guide

> Mary MacLean in Simon by J. Storer Clouston.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mary, the imaginative Mary MacLean

**First appearance:** 0005-vi-at-night

## Snapshot

Simon Rattar's soft-voiced Highland housemaid, nervous and conscientious, who reports a man in the drive and footsteps beneath the library window — and notices things her master would rather she didn't.

## Who they are

Mary brings her master his breakfast and her unease with it: a figure slipping into the trees, a shaving cut where Silent Simon has never cut himself before, a hand that upsets the toast rack. Her Highland fidelity to the master wars with an instinct that something is wrong, and her sharp domestic eye — the same kind of eye that makes a servant's evidence about a hearth brush worth a rap — keeps catching details no one else bothers to record. She is the household's quiet witness, and her testimony gives the mystery its first physical traces.

## Relationships

### [Simon Rattar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/simon_rattar)

_psychological_

Mary is a victim of Rattar's manipulation, caught in a web of deceit and emotional control.

### [F. T. Carrington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/f_t_carrington)

_friendship_

Carrington is a protective friend to Mary, often trying to shield her from Rattar's harmful influence.

### [F. T. Carrington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/f_t_carrington)

_friendship_

Carrington is a protective friend to Mary, often trying to shield her from Rattar's harmful influence.

### [Simon Rattar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/simon_rattar)

_psychological_

Mary is a victim of Rattar's manipulation, caught in a web of deceit and emotional control.

### [Simon Rattar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/simon_rattar)

_psychological_

Mary is a victim of Rattar's manipulation, caught in a web of deceit and emotional control.

### [F. T. Carrington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/f_t_carrington)

_friendship_

Carrington is a protective friend to Mary, often trying to shield her from Rattar's harmful influence.

## In the story

### [II: The Procurator Fiscal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/ii-the-procurator-fiscal)

Loyal housemaid who reports the prowler to Rattar and later confides her suspicion that he is afraid.

### [At Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/vi-at-night)

The housemaid becomes increasingly frightened by locked rooms, strange sounds, and her master's unusual behavior, sensing something sinister.

### [XXXII: The Sympathetic Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/xxxii-the-sympathetic-stranger)

The maid at Rattar's house who is charmed by Carrington and reveals details about the burglary.

### [The House of Mysteries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/xxxiii-the-house-of-mysteries)

The maid who reveals the house's mysteries to Carrington, including the burglary, the missing ring, the box of papers, and Rattar's nightly walks.

### [The Walking Stick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/xxxvi-the-walking-stick)

Assists Carrington by keeping cook occupied; later peeps from a window and sees Carrington probing the garden; overhears Rattar mention Keldale House.

### [XXXVIII: Trapped](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/chapters/xxxviii-trapped)

Announces men digging in the garden, prompting Rattar's panic.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_se/characters/mary_maclean
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