Lady Constance Keeble, nee Threepwood, widow of the late
Joseph Keeble, who made a packet out East; sister of Lord
Emsworth and chatelaine of Blandings in
Leave It to Psmith,
Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!,
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend,
Summer Lightning,
Go-Getter,
Heavy Weather,
The Crime Wave at Blandings,
Uncle Fred in the Springtime,
Pigs Have Wings,
Service With a Smile,
Galahad at Blandings,
Sticky Wicket at Blandings.
For a list of her nine sisters, see under Clarence Threepwood.
A strikingly handsome woman in her middle
forties in Leave It to Psmith with a high, arched nose, admirably adapted
for sniffing. Devoted admirer of the Efficient Baxter, also
soft on the Duke of Dunstable, her one-time suitor and
briefly her fiance until he canceled his wedding plans because
her father refused to meet his terms in the matter of a
dowry. With these exceptions, strong men run like rabbits to
avoid her: the sort of woman who makes you feel that no
matter how suave her manner for the nonce, she is at heart
a twenty-minute egg and may start functioning at any
moment. Her efforts in Heavy Weather are directed at the
suppression of her brother Galahad's memoirs and the prevention of
her nephew Ronnie Fish's marriage to Sue Brown. Shot her
governess, Miss Mapleton, in tlie bustle with an air gun in
her youth; in The Crime Wave at Blandings she fires same at Beach at a range of six
feet, and misses. Married to New Yorker
James Schoonmaker and no longer resident chatelaine of Blandings in
A Pelican at Blandings, where she revisits the old haunt and once again
terrorizes Clarence. Last heard of living in America in Sunset at Blandings.
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