Boatwarden · female
Boatwarden, not of the House: no rank, no pin, no colour. Keeps the boathouse and the black boat, speaks briefly with a word of the river-mouth dialect in it, seldom more, and calls the Director by her first name. Kneels before no one and stands before the water as before a relative. Wears oilskins the colour of the canal. Looks at the women of the House as at the weather: attentive, without surprise. The only one who goes out to the island alone. Wants those of the House to go no further than t...
From the simulation Das Haus am Kanal.