Mrs Groves

In the short story The Dressmaker's Doll, Mrs Groves is the cleaner at Alicia Coombe's dressmaking business.

Mrs Groves dislikes the doll, and tells Sybil Fox that the doll gives her the creeps, but she has never said anything before, because she had never noticed the doll before.

Mrs Groves later tells Alicia that the doll is sitting at the desk in the fitting room, and says that it gave her "a turn". She eventually refuses to go into the fitting room to clean it, always giving an excuse.