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Detective Sergeant Trotter (Georgie Corrigan)
Leslie Margaret Katherine Casewell is one of the guests staying at Monkswell Manor. She’s a 24-year-old woman with a direct and authoritative demeanor, which makes the other characters perceive her as masculine. While she’s highly private about herself and her background, she reveals that she grew up in England and then moved abroad at the age of 13. Now, she’s visiting England on an important errand, but she’s reluctant to specify what this errand is. Miss Casewell also divulges that she had a difficult, unhappy childhood. Her response to her painful memories is to never look back to the past, and she uses sheer willpower to move forward in life. Nevertheless, Miss Casewell remembers her traumatic past vividly. She is actually Kathy Corrigan, the second of the three children abused by Maureen and John Stanning at Longridge Farm. At the end of the play, she stops Georgie Corrigan, her older brother, from killing Mollie by revealing her true identity. After reconnecting with Georgie, she promises to bring him somewhere to get the care he needs.
Miss Casewell (Kathy Corrigan) Quotes in The Mousetrap
The The Mousetrap quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Casewell (Kathy Corrigan) or refer to Miss Casewell (Kathy Corrigan). 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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Act 1, Scene 2 Quotes
CHRISTOPHER: Snow’s rather lovely, isn’t it? So peaceful—and pure…It makes one forget things.
CASEWELL: It doesn’t make me forget […] Ice on a bedroom jug, chilblains, raw and bleeding—one thin, ragged blanket—a child shivering with cold and fear.
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MOLLIE: But sometimes things happen—to make you remember…
CASEWELL: Don’t give in. Turn your back on them.
MOLLIE: Is that really the right way? I wonder. Perhaps that’s all wrong. Perhaps one ought really to…face them.
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Nothing from the past is going to affect me—except in the way I want it to.
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Act 2, Scene 1 Quotes
It’s all right, Georgie. I’m taking you somewhere where they will look after you, and see that you won’t do any more harm.
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Miss Casewell (Kathy Corrigan) Character Timeline in The Mousetrap
The timeline below shows where the character Miss Casewell (Kathy Corrigan) appears in The Mousetrap. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1, Scene 1
...again, and the fourth and final guest enters, a young woman who introduces herself as Miss Casewell . She strides authoritatively to the fireplace to warm up and begins talking about the...
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...remains suspicious that he may be a swindler. Changing the subject, Mollie notes how peculiar Miss Casewell seems. Giles agrees, calling her a “terrible female” and doubting whether she even “is a...
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Act 1, Scene 2
Mollie carries a vacuum cleaner upstairs and bumps into Miss Casewell , who is coming downstairs. Mrs. Boyle complains that Mollie clearly doesn’t know how to...
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Miss Casewell turns up the radio so loud that Mrs. Boyle, irritated, retreats to the library to...
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...followed “implicitly.” Nervous, Mollie and Giles wonder what they could possibly have done wrong. Meanwhile, Miss Casewell leaves the hall to go upstairs as soon as she hears the Ralstons talking about...
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With everyone gathered in the entrance hall (except for Miss Casewell , who’s still upstairs), Sergeant Trotter explains why he’s here. He says it’s “a matter...
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At the mention of Longridge Farm, Miss Casewell comes downstairs and cryptically refers to “three children.” In fact, as Sergeant Trotter explains, the...
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...declares that the English are a funny people, and leaves the room. In his absence, Miss Casewell notes that he’s wearing makeup. Mollie has also noticed that Mr. Paravicini appears old but...
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Mollie comments on how “horrid” she finds the tune of “Three Blind Mice,” and Miss Casewell wonders if Mollie dislikes the nursery rhyme because she had an unhappy childhood. However, Mollie’s...
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As Miss Casewell leaves the hall, Giles and Sergeant Trotter return. Trotter tries to call the police superintendent...
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Act 2, Scene 1
At the time of Mrs. Boyle’s murder, Miss Casewell was writing a letter in the library. Sergeant Trotter is suspicious of the fact that...
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...that the murderer may be a woman, perhaps the surviving sister of the Corrigan boys. Miss Casewell or even Mollie herself could be this woman. Trotter now asks Mollie how much she...
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...help. He believes someone has hidden the skis somewhere in the house. After Mr. Paravicini, Miss Casewell , and Major Metcalf return to the entrance hall, Trotter questions everyone as to whether...
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Next, Sergeant Trotter questions Miss Casewell . Hesitantly, she tells him that her full name is Leslie Margaret Katherine Casewell. She...
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Regaining her focus, Miss Casewell says that she’s 24 years old and left England to live abroad when she was...
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Christopher walks into the room and asks Miss Casewell what’s wrong. She dismisses his question, saying that all this talk of murder has upset...
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Miss Casewell enters the room and calls out to Georgie, entreating him to remember the farm animals...
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