Nixon (All Souls')

Nixon is the owner of a car rental service. Sara Clayburn hires a car and a driver from this service, in order to escape from Whitegates after meeting the strange woman for the second time. Because the fictional town of Norrington is the closest to Whitegates, it can be assumed that Nixon’s car rental is located there, although this is not explicitly said in the story. Moreover, it appears as if Nixon and Sara have known each other for a long time and/or he is very attentive towards his customers because he “[…] came with the car himself […]”[1] when Sara calls him late in the evening. Nixon is an insignificant character used to emphasize that Sara Clayburn was so frightened that she was not able to drive on her own anymore.

[1] Edith Wharton, “All Souls’,” in: The Demanding Dead – More Stories of Terror and the Supernatural, ed. Peter Haining (London: Peter Owen Publishers, 2007), 205.