Miss Bell

In the novel A Pocket Full of Rye, Miss Bell is the youngest typist at Consolidated Investments Trust. She thinks Mr Fortescue is having an epileptic seizure, and suggests putting a cork in his mouth. She looks up doctors under D, and ambulances under A in the telephone directory. She then suggests giving Mr Fortescue some mustard and water. However, there is no mustard in the office.

Later in the novel, when Lance Fortescue enters the office, Miss Bell gazes eagerly at him over the top of her typewriter.