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Colonel Felix Dobell is an American Intelligence officer who has an office next door to the May of Teck Club. Felix is an associate of Nicholas’s, though they don’t have much in common. He lives in fear of his wife, Gareth—which is a problem when Gareth decides to visit London to give a talk at the May of Teck Club, seeing as Felix is presently having an affair with Selina, a stunningly beautiful May of Teck girl. Unbeknownst to Felix, Selina considers him one of her “weak men”—someone Selina doesn’t respect and only uses for sex and to leverage his weaknesses against him for her own benefit.
Colonel Felix Dobell Quotes in The Girls of Slender Means
The The Girls of Slender Means quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Felix Dobell or refer to Colonel Felix Dobell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 Quotes
It was in fact a misunderstanding of Nicholas—[Jane] vaguely thought of him as a more attractive Rudi Bittesch—to imagine he would receive more pleasure and reassurance from a literary girl than simply a girl. It was the girl in Jane that had moved him to kiss her at the party; she might have gone further with Nicholas without her literary leanings. That was a mistake she continued to make in her relations with men, inferring from her own preference for men of books and literature their preference for women of the same business. And it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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‘Were you in the house at the time?’ said Felix.
‘I was,’ said Greggie. ‘I was in bed. Next moment I was on the floor. All the windows were broken. And it’s my suspicion there was a second bomb that didn’t go off. I’m almost sure I saw it drop as I picked myself up off the floor. But the disposal squad found only the one bomb and removed it. Anyway, if there’s a second it must have died a natural death by now. I’m talking about the year 1942.’
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Colonel Felix Dobell Character Timeline in The Girls of Slender Means
The timeline below shows where the character Colonel Felix Dobell appears in The Girls of Slender Means. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...be “symbols of the Resistance.” Sitting down on the couch, she announces that Colonel G. Felix Dobell, head of an American Intelligence Service branch whose offices are located next door, will...
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Jane makes a joke at the warden’s expense. “That is a very original idea,” Felix notes, but Jane realizes that he was responding to something Nicholas said, not her joke....
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Nicholas and Felix continue to discuss politics. Felix mentions how his wife Gareth belongs to “the Guild of...
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...no desire “to possess her entirely.” She wonders if Nicholas could serve the same purpose. Felix is one of Selina’s weak men. His weakness is his wife, Gareth, whom he’s deeply...
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Jane, Selina, Nicholas, and Felix decide to take a drive to Richmond—a long journey these days, when gas is so...
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...(Greggie, Collie, and Jarvie) enter with coffee to serve and are introduced to Nicholas and Felix. When Jarvie, who is dressed to go out, mentions that she is headed to her...
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Felix interrupts to ask if his wife Gareth might stay at the club for a couple...
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Chapter 7
...hotel next door, which is presently occupied by American Intelligence, which Nicholas serves with. Colonel Felix Dobell has recently reversed course to approve of Nicholas and Selina’s using the roof, as...
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...the ground floor. Nicholas has access to the building, and he got permission from Colonel Felix Dobell to move into an attic office, in which there is a hatch door leading...
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Chapter 8
...subjects she would have addressed in her lecture. Mrs. Dobell looks around for her husband, Felix (the Colonel), and sees him emerge from the hotel next door. He’s been investigating the...
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Twenty-eight minutes after the bomb goes off, Nicholas Farringdon and Felix Dobell are on the roof helping “the three slim girls”—Anne, Pauline, and Selina—slide through the...
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