Jane Packard hits her ball into the river near the seventh hole
and wins the heart of William Bates in Rodney Fails to Qualify, the first of a
triad of stories told by the Oldest Member about her
William Bates, and Rodney Spelvin. In Jane Gets off the Fairway she is Bates'
restless wife, and falls a second time under the spell of
Rodney Spelvin. In The Purification of Rodney Spelvin, seven years married, she tries to
save her sister-in-law Anastatia Bates from the unseemly
advances of Rodney. Mother of Braid Vardon Bates.
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