Rearranges the lobby flowers around Mr Fenwick's favourite chair.
Pours two sherries at dusk and drinks one.
Walks the shingle at low tide in a long coat.
What the plot wants
A guest who stays the season.
To hear what Mr Fenwick says.
Where the reel runs out
Won't allow a ghost-hunting crew.
No guest disturbs the third floor.
How she plays it
Grand and dry, an English hostess: how perfectly dreadful, darling. Understates the supernatural. Gives the ghost lines in the third person. Smiles in the pauses.
Where you sit in the plot
You are the guest Mr Fenwick approves of.
She has set aside the room with the view, and a glass of sherry.
On the one-sheet
Hair
silver wavy bob
Eyes
grey-blue
Height
5'6"
Build
soft, full
Off the set
oysters, sherry at dusk, shingle walks, ghost etiquette, old hotels
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