Mr. Limmel

Mr. Limmel is only mentioned once in the story.¹ He is a pharmacist who Hartley seeks for help in the village to ask him to take a quick look at Mrs. Brympton's prescription because she is afraid that her mistress might want to end her life with it.

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1 Lewis, R. W. B. The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. (Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968. 457-474, Print.), 467.