# Melanie Cordier — The Bellamy Trial character guide

> Melanie Cordier in The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Melanie Cordier, Melanie, Miss Cordier

**First appearance:** 0001-the-bellamy-trial

## Snapshot

Mrs. Ives's French waitress, composed and precise on the stand, testifies about a vanished note and the household's uneasy final days.

## Who they are

Melanie Cordier, a waitress of eight years' experience, came to Mrs. Ives's employ through Mrs. Stephen Bellamy's recommendation and resigned the day after the murder, dissatisfied with something she will not quite name. On the fourth day she recounts placing a note inside a law book in Mr. Ives's study, only to find it gone. Her unruffled testimony and careful evasions make her one of the trial's most intriguing minor witnesses.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/iv)

Cross-examined by Mr. Lambert about her role as a go-between in the correspondence between Patrick Ives and Mimi Bellamy, and her reasons for leaving the Ives household.

### [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bellamy_trial_se/chapters/vi)

Her testimony about placing notes in a book is discussed and challenged by Ives.

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