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Baroness Schöppling
also: баронесса Шепплинг
An old friend of the mother-in-law in "Both Better", a mentioned-but-unseen aristocrat on the wife's side of the family whose absurd comic tag is that her name is spelled "with two p's"; the wife warns she is a shameless gossip who will falsely claim the family is ungrateful.
Reading notes
- Both Better §2 Baroness Schöppling (with two p's)
The running joke of the name's spelling (repeated three times in the story) mocks the mother-in-law's and wife's anxious insistence on a foreign title's correct rendering, a marker of social pretension.