# Mrs. de Bray Pape — The Last Post character guide

> Mrs. de Bray Pape in The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** supporting

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

**First appearance:** 0002-the-last-post

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_post_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_post_se/chapters/part-i-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.

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

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_post_se/chapters/part-ii-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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