In the short story The Hound of Death, Marie Angelique was a Belgian nun. Her convent was attacked by German soldiers during World War I, during the phase of the German invasion known the “Rape of Belgium”. She subsequently escaped to England Where she joined a group of other Belgian refugees and lived at the village of Folbridge in Cornwall. After the war, most of the refugees returned home but Marie Angelique remained at Folbridge. What happened to her subsequently forms the main plot of the story.
Advertisement