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Roderick Ayers
Betty is a 14-year-old servant who works at Hundreds Hall. Though immature, Betty is a well-intentioned girl who does her best to take care of Hundreds Hall and the Ayers family. However, Hundreds frightens Betty, and she is the first person who believes it might be haunted. Although Faraday regularly dismisses her, by the end of the novel he cannot help but wonder whether she is right.
Betty Quotes in The Little Stranger
The The Little Stranger quotes below are all either spoken by Betty or refer to Betty . 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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Chapter 3
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In fact, I’d say that probably the only person who wasn’t watching Gillian was Betty. After going around with the toast, she had put herself over by the door, and had been standing there with her gaze lowered, just as she had been trained. And yet—it was an extraordinary thing, but none of us could afterwards say that we had been looking at Gillian exactly when the incident occurred.
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Chapter 14
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She had called out: ‘You.’ […] She called it as if she had seen someone she knew, sir, but as though she was afraid of them. Mortal afraid. And after that I heard her running. She came running back towards the stairs. I got out of bed, and went over to the door, and quickly opened it. And that’s when I saw her falling.
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Betty Quotes in The Little Stranger
The The Little Stranger quotes below are all either spoken by Betty or refer to Betty . 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:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
In fact, I’d say that probably the only person who wasn’t watching Gillian was Betty. After going around with the toast, she had put herself over by the door, and had been standing there with her gaze lowered, just as she had been trained. And yet—it was an extraordinary thing, but none of us could afterwards say that we had been looking at Gillian exactly when the incident occurred.
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Chapter 14
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She had called out: ‘You.’ […] She called it as if she had seen someone she knew, sir, but as though she was afraid of them. Mortal afraid. And after that I heard her running. She came running back towards the stairs. I got out of bed, and went over to the door, and quickly opened it. And that’s when I saw her falling.
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