Mr. Wace

Mr. Wace is the butler of the house. He is “a serious, slow-spoken man” (p.461) and a “great Bible reader”.¹

He, like the other servants, changes his behavior when Mr. Brympton appears in the house. He reads aloud negative words from the Bible, although he assures Hartley that they are all “out of Isaiah”² Hartley notices that “whenever the master came Mr. Wace took to the prophets”.³

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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.), 461.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.