|Character |Trait |Quote or action |
|Sophy |Kind |She took her son’s correction of her grammar and “did not resent his making it” (p47). |
|(Mrs Twycott) | |She offered the vicar that she be the one to leave since he had to get rid of one of the helpers. |
| | |When she talked with Sam in the cart, she was very open and not trying to be a ‘refined lady’. |
| | |She worried about what her son would think if she was to marry Sam. |
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| | |Sophy told Sam she would stay on the vicarage, even after the passing of the vicar’s wife. |
| |Loyal/devoted |She married Mr Twycott because she “dared refuse a personage so revered”. |
| | |She “had a respect for him.” (p49)