# Mistress Adelais Vernon — The Line of Love character guide

> Mistress Adelais Vernon in The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Adelais, Mistress Vernon

**First appearance:** 0008-iv-the-episode-called-sweet-adelais

## Who they are

A Vernon woman whose fate threads through the family's tangled romances, her story bound to the weddings and heartburnings that shape the Musgrave line.

## In the story

### [IV: The Episode Called “Sweet Adelais”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_line_of_love_se/chapters/iv-the-episode-called-sweet-adelais)

The central figure, courted by Fulke, resists Roger Darke's forced marriage, and ultimately declares her love for Fulke.

## Links

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