Pettifer, Mrs.

Janet Dempster's kind friend who shelters her when her husband turns her out at midnight. "The small, elderly lady in dowdy clothing, who is also working diligently, is Mrs. Pettifer, a superior-minded widow, much valued in Milby, being such a very respectable person to have in the house in case of illness, and of quite too good a family to receive any money-payment — you could always send her garden-stuff that would make her ample amends." The original of Mrs. Pettifer was a Mrs. Robinson. (Manuscript information; also Olcott, George Eliot, p. 16; Coventry, Centenary, p. 5.)

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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