In the short story The Bird with the Broken Wing, Madge Keeley is the daughter of David Keeley. She has invited Mr Satterthwaite to their home Laidell. During that weekend Madge's engagement to Roger Graham is going to be announced. To Mr Satterthwaite, Madge is a complete contrast to her father. She is a fine upstanding young woman, bursting with energy and life. "Thorough, healthy and normal, and extremely pretty".