# The Story of Ivy — Character guide

> Key figures in The Story of Ivy by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

- [Ivy Lexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/ivy_lexton.md): Ivy Lexton moves through a pleasure-loving London set where everyone calls her a dear little thing and a splendid wife to that rotter Lexton. Yet while her husband fights for his life upstairs, her mind runs on Miles Rus
- [Roger Gretorex](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/roger_gretorex.md): Roger Gretorex grinds through his poorer patients in a shabby mid-Victorian house off the Embankment, where Ivy slips in through the surgery to avoid being seen. He loathes playing hail-fellow with Jervis Lexton yet long
- [Miles Rushworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/miles_rushworth.md): Rushworth is the employer whose favour keeps Jervis Lexton in a job invented for him, and the patron whose arrival transforms Ivy's prospects. He arrives home full of two women, his dead sister and Ivy, and tormented by 
- [Enid Dent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/enid_dent.md): Enid Dent belongs to the same easy, pleasure-loving world in which Ivy plays her part, close enough to be trusted with errands and confidences. Where Ivy performs charm, Enid observes, and her position on the edge of the
- [Jervis Lexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/jervis_lexton.md): Jervis Lexton comes of sporting country squires and has the hard-bitten constitution to match, which is why his week-long illness drags on so intolerably for everyone around him. Businessmen have long since written him o
- [Mrs. Gretorex](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/mrs_gretorex.md): Mrs. Gretorex presides over the modest mid-Victorian house off the Embankment where Roger sees his poorer patients and where Ivy enters by the back surgery to avoid notice. Her son's devotion to her, and the household ro
- [Dr. Berwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/dr_berwick.md): Dr. Berwick takes over the care of the ailing Jervis Lexton and is at first inclined to dismiss the case as a passing ailment, but as his patient worsens he begins to entertain a suspicion too serious to voice aloud. He 
- [Nurse Bradfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/nurse_bradfield.md): Nurse Bradfield tends Jervis Lexton with real affection and fits herself without complaint around the whims of his glamorous young wife. She notices Ivy's frivolity and self-absorption, yet is drawn in by her warmth of m
- [Mr. Oram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/mr_oram.md): Mr. Oram belongs to the respectable, watchful circle that surrounds the Lexton household, the sort of man whose long memory and local standing give weight to what he notices. His involvement in the family's affairs place
- [Sir Joseph Molloy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/sir_joseph_molloy.md): Sir Joseph Molloy moves through the case with the authority of rank and the sharpness of a man who has adjured witnesses to truth before. His gentle handling of the condemned Gretorex carries an undercurrent of ferocity,
- [Alfred Finch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/alfred_finch.md): A servant or employee in the Lexton or Rushworth household, involved in subplots.
- [Inspector Orpington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/inspector_orpington.md): Inspector Orpington has built his case on impressions of Ivy Lexton as a simple, grieving wife, and the discovery of her passionate letters to Roger Gretorex overturns everything he thought he knew. He is incensed at bei
- [Mrs. Huntley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/mrs_huntley.md): A social acquaintance of Ivy, part of the gossip and social circle.
- [Mrs. Thrawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/mrs_thrawn.md): A minor character who appears in social scenes related to the main plot.
- [Lady Flora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/lady_flora.md): A titled woman, possibly a relative or friend of the Lextons, with a role in society.
- [Philip Paxton-Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/philip_paxton_smith.md): A gentleman with a possible romantic or professional interest in the main characters.
- [Lady Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/lady_dale.md): A minor aristocratic figure in the social background of the story.
- [Bella Dale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/bella_dale.md): A young woman, possibly a friend or relative of Lady Dale.
- [Mary Hampton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/mary_hampton.md): A young woman, possibly Mrs. Hampton's daughter or a servant.
- [Jack Quirk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/jack_quirk.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or local tradesman.
- [Rose Arundell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/rose_arundell.md): A young woman, possibly a friend of Ivy or Enid.

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