Mrs. Deering

Further names: mother, wife

Mrs. Deering is the wife of Vincent and the mother of Juliet. The whole day she lays on her lounge chair upstairs “[…] in her drug-scented room […]” (Lewis 178) and is “[…] reading relays of dog-eared novels [that her cook or the nurse would] fetch for her from the cabinet de lecture”. (Lewis 177/178) Mrs. Deering doesn’t have much interest in her daughter Juliet and also doesn’t want “[…] to be ‘bothered’ about […]” (Lewis 178) her. She has a lot of headaches and during her visit of the relations in St. Raphaël she dies.