# Lady Flora — The Story of Ivy character guide

> Lady Flora in The Story of Ivy by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Flora, Lady Flora Desmond, Flora Desmond

**First appearance:** 0013-xiii

## Who they are

A titled woman, possibly a relative or friend of the Lextons, with a role in society.

## Relationships

### [Ivy Lexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/ivy_lexton)

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Lady Flora is a high-society acquaintance of Ivy, interacting with her in social circles with polite but distant formality.

### [Miles Rushworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/miles_rushworth)

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Lady Flora and Miles are social peers, moving in the same aristocratic circles with polite acquaintance.

### [Ivy Lexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/ivy_lexton)

_social_

Lady Flora is a high-society acquaintance of Ivy, interacting with her in social circles with polite but distant formality.

### [Miles Rushworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/miles_rushworth)

_social_

Lady Flora and Miles are social peers, moving in the same aristocratic circles with polite acquaintance.

### [Miles Rushworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/miles_rushworth)

_social_

Lady Flora and Miles are social peers, moving in the same aristocratic circles with polite acquaintance.

### [Ivy Lexton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/characters/ivy_lexton)

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Lady Flora is a high-society acquaintance of Ivy, interacting with her in social circles with polite but distant formality.

## In the story

### [Prologue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/chapters/prologue)

A kind and naive widow who admires Ivy's beauty and defends her, despite warnings from others.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/chapters/xv)

One of the few people Ivy feels is genuinely sorry for her ordeal.

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_ivy_se/chapters/xxi)

Hosts Ivy at her country cottage; offers sympathy and prays for the condemned man.

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