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 appears in the story, His Excellency. Witherspoon chooses to marry Lady Anne because her upbringing insures that she will make an appropriate diplomat's wife. Before their wedding, Anne travels to Africa. Witherspoon, however, stays behind and has an affair with Alix, the acrobat whom he spends his life wishing that he had married instead. When Anne learns of his affair, she holds the knowledge of it over her husband's head.