Janet (The Clocks)

In the novel The Clocks, Janet is one of the typists at Cavendish Secretarial and Typewriting Bureau. If Sheila Webb's appointment with Miss Pebmarsh took too long, Miss Martindale said that Janet would be able to go to Professor Purdy instead of Sheila.

Inspector Hardcastle observes that Janet is a "fair solid-looking girl with spectacles. Dependable ... but not particularly bright." When Hardcastle comes to the bureau to ask the employees about Edna Brent, all the girls looked to one another and seemed to appoint Janet as their spokesperson to begin answering the inspector's questions first.