The Square Emerald · Character
Lady Raytham
A coolly beautiful young wife waiting alone in a lamplit Berkeley Square saloon for a husband who keeps postponing his return from the East.
supporting
Also known as dear Lady Raytham, the new Lady Raytham
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As a supporting figure in The Square Emerald, Lady Raytham is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Mentioned as having employed Druze after Lord Everreed.
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At twenty-eight, Lady Raytham has the austere, purposeful face of a woman built to defend a castle — yet on this sleet-grey February evening she is uncertain and irritable, closer to fear than she has ever been. Her…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Extended family and minor characters
- Druze family and associates
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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