Vanessa Polk, kind to Lady Constance Keeble on the boat
from New York during one of her attacks of neuralgia, poses
as the daughter of financial emperor J.B. Polk, by whom she
is employed as confidential secretary. Actually daughter of
former valet G.P. Polk of Norfolk county, an emigrant to
America, and a onetime Blandings parlour-maid. Very sound
on pigs, marries Willie Trout in A Pelican at Blandings.
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