Who is Lady Anne Witherspoon from Collected Short Stories Volume Three and what is their importance? W._Somerset_Maugham English & Literature Lady Anne Witherspoon | Collected Short Stories Volume Three

Lady Anne Witherspoon is the woman whom Witherspoon chose to marry in the story "His Excellency." He chooses Anne because her upbringing would make her an appropriate diplomat's wife. Before their wedding Anne travels to Africa with her father. It is during this time that Witherspoon has an affair with Alix, the acrobat whom he spends his life wishing that he had married instead of Anne. When Anne learns of this affair, she holds the knowledge of it over her husband's head.