Who is Baroness de Higgins from Collected Short Stories Volume Three and what is their importance? W._Somerset_Maugham English & Literature Baroness de Higgins | Collected Short Stories Volume Three

The Baroness de Higgins invites a group of people to play bridge with her after dinner one night. The Baroness is an Austrian, and Ashenden believes that she might have given his name to the police as a spy. Later in the story, we learn that he once had a brief fling with the Baroness. Their affair ends quickly when Ashenden learns that Baroness de Higgins, in fact, an Austrian spy.