Miss Burshaw

In the short story The Girdle of Hyppolita, Miss Burshaw is the second-in-command of Miss Lavinia Pope who ran an exclusive finishing school for girls at Neuilly, Paris. Miss Burshaw took charge of a party of nineteen schoolgirls from London on a train to Paris. Along the way, somewhere after Amiens, Winnie King disappeared, although the train had not stopped since she was last seen.

Miss Burshaw was described as a "grey-haired, fussy looking woman."