Joan Romney, 16 or 17, manipulative narrator of The Wire-Pullers, Petticoat Influence, Personally Conducted, Ladies and Gentlemen v. Players, and Against the Clock, lives in Much Middlefold with her father Sir William and her brother Bob. Wants to spend the winter in London in The Wire-Pullers. She has an Aunt Edith, a muddling Aunt Flora, and an Aunt Elizabeth, who is perfectly awful. In Petticoat Influence she winters on Sloane Street with her father and intervenes with T.B. Hook to get brother Bob on the Oxford footer team. Recruits Alan Gethryn (a distant cousin) from Beckford to bowl for Much Middlefold in Personally Conducted; in Ladies and Gentlemen v. Players she patches up a rift between her maid Saunders and William Batkins. Delays the end of a cricket match in Against the Clock so that the villagers will defeat her father's team and keep their right-of-way across her father's field.