Mrs Sweeney

In the novel The Secret Adversary, Mrs Sweeney is a resident of Yorkshire, who holds the key to the Moat House. She lives in a little hamlet near The Moat House, in a little cottage next to the post office.

Mrs Sweeney is described as a "clean, wholesome-looking woman". When Tommy Beresford and Julius Hersheimmer ask her for the key of The Moat House, she readily produces it, but tells them that she doubts it would suit them, as it is in a terrible state of repair, and would need a lot of money spent on it.

Mrs Sweeney has a daughter and son-in-law, whom she says have been looking for a decent cottage for a long time. She attributes the scarcity of houses to the war, saying that it has upset things terribly.