Hermione Pegler (Mrs. Winthrop Pegler) of Park Avenue and Newport, a handsome, severe woman with elaborately waved hair and plucked iron-grey eyebrows, like an elderly Gibson girl with something on her mind, aunt of Chester and Mavis Todd in French Leave, keen on arranging the marriage of Mavis to Freddie Carpenter. First married to a Mr. Vokes, then to the Marquis de Maufrigneuse (she was his second wife), thirdly to L.J. Quackenbush.

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