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Cyril Pinner
Kate is Constantia and Josephine’s difficult, flighty maid, a fixture of the Pinner household who has been with the women and their father for many years. Though she is often rude and unhelpful—refusing to fetch food or take orders from her employers—Josephine and Constantia treat her with respect and cautious politeness, afraid to offend or trouble her (likely because they do not wish to terrorize her in the same way that their father terrorized them). Constantia realizes that Kate may “spy” in their belongings when they are away, and the two sisters discuss firing her, since they believe that her service is no longer needed after their father’s death. Yet they cannot make up their minds about Kate’s trustworthiness, suggesting that they are utterly dependent on her, though she is hardly maternal or supportive: unlike Kate, they cannot cook or run a household themselves.
Kate Quotes in The Daughters of the Late Colonel
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How did one prove things, how could one? Suppose Kate had stood in front of her and deliberately made a face. Mightn’t she very well have been in pain? Wasn’t it impossible, at any rate, to ask Kate if she was making a face at her? If Kate answered “No”—and of course she would say “No”—what a position! How undignified! Then again Constantia suspected, she was almost certain that Kate went to her chest of drawers when she and Josephine were out, not to take things but to spy.
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Kate Quotes in The Daughters of the Late Colonel
The The Daughters of the Late Colonel quotes below are all either spoken by Kate or refer to Kate . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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How did one prove things, how could one? Suppose Kate had stood in front of her and deliberately made a face. Mightn’t she very well have been in pain? Wasn’t it impossible, at any rate, to ask Kate if she was making a face at her? If Kate answered “No”—and of course she would say “No”—what a position! How undignified! Then again Constantia suspected, she was almost certain that Kate went to her chest of drawers when she and Josephine were out, not to take things but to spy.
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