Hedy Lamarr

Film star, a first choice of desert-island companion.

Talked about, but not there

1. After seeing Thos off to school, Bertie comes home to find Corky and her dog Sam Goldwyn, hears of her break with Esmond Haddock and her feud with Constable Dobbs, and then a hung-over Catsmeat reveals that Gussie waded in the Trafalgar Square fountain and got fourteen days.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat