George Pearson

George is Mrs Pearson's husband, a man of about fifty who is fundamentally decent but solemn, self-important and pompous — a heavy, slow-moving type. He treats his home as a place to be waited on and spends his evenings at his club, leaving his wife alone night after night. He is complacent and thin-skinned: he dislikes surprises, wants only "a steady going on," and is horrified to learn that the club members secretly laugh at him and call him "Pompy-ompy Pearson." That revelation deflates his pomposi …