Person
Mrs. Barrymore
Also known as Eliza.
The housekeeper of Baskerville Hall and wife of the butler Barrymore, one half of the married couple who were the only resident staff under the late Sir Charles.
Chapter V. Three Broken Threads
Like her husband she was left five hundred pounds in Sir Charles's will, a legacy she knew was coming.
Chapter VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Her red, swollen eyes betray that it was she who wept in the night, though her husband lies to deny it.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
The secret behind her grief comes out: the escaped convict Selden is her younger brother, whom she and her husband have been secretly feeding on the moor.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
It was she who found the ashes of the burned L. L. letter in Sir Charles's grate weeks after his death.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
When the news of her brother's death is broken to her she weeps bitterly, for to her he remained the wilful boy of her own girlhood.
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