Claud Averbury

In the short story The Affair at the Bungalow, Claud Averbury is an actor and the former husband of Jane Helier. According to Jane, some woman (whom she did not name) had stolen Claud from her and then subsequently married him. Lately Jane had discovered that this same woman had also been having an affair with one Sir Joseph Salmon. Aggrieved by all this, Jane wants to expose this woman's affair and so show to the world and to Claud what kind of woman she is.