Anastatia Bates, William Bates' younger sister in The Purification of Rodney Spelvin, recent semifinalist in the Ladies' Open Championship: one of those small, rose-leaf girls with big blue eyes to whom good men instinctively want to give a stroke a hole and on whom bad men automatically prey. Golf instructor to her nephew Braid Vardon Bates and to Rodney Spelvin, whom she purifies. In Rodney Has a Relapse she is Anastatia Spelvin, one-time Ladies' Champion, and mother of a young son named Timothy.

• The Purification of Rodney Spelvin
• Rodney Has a Relapse