Dorothy Pratt

In the short story A Fruitful Sunday, Dorothy Pratt is a parlourmaid working for Mrs Mackenzie Jones. During her day off, she went out for a drive with her boyfriend Edward Palgrove. They stopped to buy a basket of fruit and then went for a picnic. From the newspaper, Dorothy read about the theft of a ruby necklace worth 50 thousand pounds. Digging into the fruit basket for cherries, Dorothy discovered a necklace fitting the description of the one described in the newspaper. Dorothy and her boyfriend face an ethical dilemma--hand the necklace over to the police or try to raise some much needed money for themselves by selling the jewels to a "fence". How this is resolved may be read here.