Uneasy Money · Character
Lady Pauline Wetherby
A scheming society hostess with a menagerie of pets, determined to marry Claire off to a thirty-million-dollar automobile manufacturer.
supporting
Also known as Pauline, Lady Wetherby, Lady Pauline Wetherby, Pauline Wetherby
First appearance: uneasy money
As a supporting figure in Uneasy Money, Lady Pauline Wetherby is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Writes a long letter to Claire from America, describing her marital troubles with Algie over her pet snake and monkey, and urges Claire to come stay with her, having paid for her…
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Lady Wetherby arranges for Claire and Dudley Pickering to share a ship, then works the drawing-room piano and moonlight to push them together. She is frank about the appeal of thirty millions and cheerfully admits to…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Central romantic entanglements
- Nutcombe fortune and estate
- Protagonist
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Bill’s shame and self-loathing upon waking—his conviction that he is a “shallow, coarse-fibered” person for sl…
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