# Lady Raytham — The Square Emerald character guide

> Lady Raytham in The Square Emerald by Edgar Wallace.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** dear Lady Raytham, the new Lady Raytham

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A coolly beautiful young wife waiting alone in a lamplit Berkeley Square saloon for a husband who keeps postponing his return from the East.

## Who they are

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 husband Raytham wires from Constantinople that he is pushing on to Basra and Bushire, and his four apologies for missing April read like a life sentence. Her watchful butler Druze, the guests she has summoned to tea, and the shadows she half-expects to see take shape in the fog all point to a woman whose ordered world is quietly coming apart.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_square_emerald_se/chapters/viii)

Mentioned as having employed Druze after Lord Everreed.

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