Mrs Spicer

In the novel Towards Zero, Mrs Spicer is the cook at Gull's Point. On the morning after the dinner party, the maid Alice Bentham approached her looking quite worried. She said she could not wake Miss Barrett, Lady Tressilian's companion. She was not dead but just lay there with "a horrid colour" and breathing in a strange way. Mrs Spicer told Alice to take Lady Tressilian's monring tea to her while she herself would go look at Miss Barrett.

The previous evening, Mrs Spicer had commented that there was a strange atmosphere in the house. It was awkward having two Mrs Stranges in the house.