# Toodles — The Secret Agent character guide

> Toodles in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the sympathetic Toodles, the experienced Toodles

**First appearance:** 0007-v

## Who they are

Sir Ethelred's private secretary, a minor functionary.

## In the story

### [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_agent_se/chapters/vii)

Sympathetic and devoted, discusses Sir Ethelred's overwork and the danger from foreign scoundrels, then leaves to attend to the Personage.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_agent_se/chapters/x)

Meets the Assistant Commissioner at the House and discusses the case with him.

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