# V Thérèse — The Eight Strokes of the Clock character guide

> V Thérèse in The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Thérèse, Thérèse d’Ormeval

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-the-telltale-film

## Snapshot

Thérèse d'Ormeval is a woman whose name and past keep surfacing where they should not, turning every introduction into a question.

## Who they are

Thérèse d'Ormeval enters the cycle as a woman whose identity is itself the puzzle — a name that connects to other names, a history that refuses to stay buried. She is bound to the d'Ormeval thread that runs through the Aubrieux case and beyond, so that meeting her feels like meeting a solution disguised as a person. Her presence matters because in Leblanc's world the woman with a hidden identity is rarely a victim and rarely innocent of knowing more than she says.

## In the story

### [V: Thérèse and Germaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eight_strokes_of_the_clock_se/chapters/v-th-r-se-and-germaine)

Grieving widow who confesses to killing her husband but claims self-defense; confronts Germaine.

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