The wife of Gordon Penley, District Representative for the Meadowlands, Mrs. Woole-Penley enjoys a quiet married life to the fullest. Because her husband is the Representative and their children moved to have families of their own, however, she rarely gets to see him as much. So she mostly fills that time by tending to her garden, listening to the radio, and interacting with the local book club. 

She despises predators with a passion, seeing them as a menace at best and a mob of uncouth savages at worst.