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Mrs. de Bray Pape

An American olive-oil heiress renting Groby, she announces herself with hieroglyphic letters and Maintenon ambitions while Sylvia pulls her strings.

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Also known as Mrs. Millicent de Bray Pape, Mrs. Pape

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An elderly American lady who fancies a moral affinity with Madame de Maintenon; she is visiting the cottage and expresses dismay at the decline of the Tietjens family.

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Mrs. Millicent de Bray Pape arrives at Groby as its tenant, brandishing her husband's global olive-oil fortune and a soul she claims rivals Madame de Maintenon's. She is shy, voluble, and easily used: Mark suspects she is Sylvia's cat's-paw rather than the intimate friend she pretends to be. Her nervous chatter and impulsive orders—including one about Groby Great Tree—make her a destabilizing force in the estate's already fragile arrangements.

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Tietjens family circle
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An elderly American lady who fancies a moral affinity with Madame de Maintenon; she is visiting the cottage and expresses dismay at the decline of the Tietjens family.
Chapter IV
She visits Mark with Sylvia's son, lectures on history and sociology, and intends to take Groby furnished, planning to maintain semi-regal state.
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Mentioned as the agent of cutting down Groby Great Tree, causing damage to Groby House; Sylvia considers manipulating her to refurnish the house.
Chapter III
An American woman who intends to cut down Groby Great Tree and re-furnish Groby in Louis Quatorze style, causing tension.

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