# Madame Cagliostra — The Chink in the Armour character guide

> Madame Cagliostra in The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cagliostra, Madame

**First appearance:** 0001-the-chink-in-the-armour

## Snapshot

A Montmartre fortune-teller whose pink card and five-franc consultations draw Sylvia in with promises the devil supposedly keeps no secrets from.

## Who they are

Madame Cagliostra is the seer whose visiting-card arrives unbidden on Sylvia's Paris table, a name the chambermaid vouches for as marvellous and cheap. She charges only five francs, yet her clients are said to include the well-known, and her readings carry a weight Sylvia cannot quite dismiss. She is the novel's first whisper of fate and fraud, the small pink card that sets the heroine walking toward danger.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_chink_in_the_armour_se/chapters/ii)

The fortune-teller. She performs the Grand Jeu, making dramatic predictions for Sylvia and Anna. She appears disturbed by what she sees in the cards and tries to get a larger fee.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_chink_in_the_armour_se/chapters/xv)

The fortune-teller who prophesied to Sylvia and Anna before they came to Lacville, now suspected of influencing Anna's departure.

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