Mervyn Keene

Also called Mervyn

Hero of Rosie M. Banks's novel, who goes to prison for his beloved's brother and is shot stealing her rose.

Connections

dealings

• is in love with Cynthia Grey 1
• takes the rap for Lionel 1
• is attacked by Sir Hector Mauleverer 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches