The Great Impersonation · Character
Rosamund Dominey
Dominey's wife, kept half a stranger in her own house, who asks him to wait for her and begs to know whether he cares at all.
major
Also known as Rosamund
First appearance: ii
As a major figure in The Great Impersonation, Rosamund Dominey is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Mentioned as still harboring a violent prejudice against Dominey, believing him to be Roger Unthank's murderer.
Rosamund lives behind the care of Mrs. Unthank, tolerated by no one else, fragile in a way that makes her husband's tenderness feel both genuine and strategic. She pleads with him not to rush her, then asks the question that undoes him: you make or mar my life, so you must care a little? Her need for reassurance sits at the center of the novel's domestic tension, because whatever Dominey is doing at the Hall, it keeps costing her something she cannot name.
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- German espionage network
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- Closing
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See Rosamund Dominey in ii