person
Wilka Charlesovna Tfais
Miss Tfais
also: Уилька Чарльзовна Тфайс, the Englishwoman, the governess
An English governess who has lived ten years in the Gryabov household without learning Russian; she responds to Gryabov's tirades and eventual nakedness with silent, unbroken contempt rather than embarrassment.
Reading notes
- A Daughter of Albion §4 Englishwoman
Gryabov's children's governess, an Englishwoman who has lived ten years in Russia without learning a word of Russian; the object of Gryabov's tirade and, later, of his indifferent nakedness.
- A Daughter of Albion §16 Wilka Charlesovna Tfais
The Englishwoman's full name and patronymic, given in mock-Russian form ("Charlesovna" from an English father's name "Charles") — the incongruity is part of the story's joke.