Mr Wilmot

In the short story The Edge, Mr Wilmot is the vicar of the village of Daymer's End. He often met Claire Halliwell doing parish work. At one such encounter, he talked with Claire about a fellow villager, Jones who could not resist temptation and had gone back to drinking. The vicar advised Claire that some people were fortunate to be very little tempted, but "even to those people their hour comes". Temptation and Claire's struggle with what to do with a secret she learnt would form the main plot of the story. Towards the end, Mr Wilmot is among those first on the scene at the death of Vivien Lee and is possibly among the eight people which the story says witnessed what happened.